Jan Fransen has come up with a new solution to the old problem of
population control: AIDS.
At a meeting of the United Nations Population Fund, Fransen
told his
surprised audience that to "increase mortality" was one way to limit
population growth in Africa. Fransen then made the jocular comment that
"AIDS was helping to do the work of population control in Africa."
With that mindset lurking at the UN, is it any surprise that the global
campaign to stem the spread of AIDS has been a colossal failure?
Fed up with the shenanigans at the United Nations, the US House of
Representatives has now issued an ultimatum to Kofi Annan. Implement 46
designated reforms by 2007, or else we'll slash the US dues payment by
half. That would cost the UN a cool $221 million.
Secretary-General Annan must contend with more than long-standing
corruption and inefficiency in the sprawling UN bureaucracy. He must
also deal with the threat of an ideological take-over. And to an
organization prone to ideological excess, that's no joking matter.
First, a little background. Five years ago, the UN unveiled its
Millennium
Development Goals. The MDGs spell out eight strategies to
lift the world's neediest out of grinding poverty. The strategies
include common-sense ideas such as universal primary education, reducing
child mortality, and combating AIDS.
And two of the strategies were specifically crafted to help women:
improve maternal health, and "promote gender equality and empower
women." (No one bothered to explain what "empowerment" meant, but it
sounded good at the time).
But mere equality wasn't enough. Like rapacious vultures, the radical
feminists demanded more. Predictably, they soon began to argue that
setting up abortion chop-shops in every town and hamlet would be a
necessary pre-condition to achieving the Development Goals.
This past March the UN Economic and Social Council convened a meeting to
discuss the MDGs. There Ms. France Donnay, chief of the Reproductive
Health Branch of the UN Population Fund, made the claim that
"reproductive health and rights are at the core of life for every human
being."
So first we're told that AIDS is a viable population control strategy.
And now we learn that in order to protect life, we must first kill the
innocent unborn. Jan Fransen and France Donnay make for an impressive
duo, n'est-ce pas?
Taking its cue from the damsels of destruction, last month the European
Union released a report pressuring the UN to expand abortion services.
According to its May 24 document, "The EU further recognizes that the
MDGs cannot be attained without progress in achieving the Cairo goal of
universal sexual and reproductive health and rights."
Note the tell-tale words, "universal" and "rights." That means
government-financed abortions on demand for women and teenage girls. And
millions of biologically-disenfranchised dads.
And there's more to the story.
The fem-socialists at the UN have come up with a diabolical strategy
that goes by the chilling name, "gender mainstreaming." According to its
proponents, gender
mainstreaming is "the process of assessing the
implications for women and men of any planned action, including
legislation, policies or programs, in all areas and at all levels."
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is now proposing
that gender mainstreaming should become the "overarching framework" for
the Development Goals. But to the radical feminist, gender equality is
always about "Me, Me, Me."
So in practice, gender equality is just another excuse to afford more
legal preferences and government programs for women. And gender
mainstreaming has become the Sisterhood's ploy to hijack the MDGs and
turn them into another platform to advance its destructive agenda.
As Janice Shaw Crouse of Concerned Women for America
warned, these
militant radicals are hoping the UN leadership will take their gender
agenda and "force it into the mainstream through international programs
and policies."
So now the stage has been set for a show-down at the UN headquarters in
New York City. On September 14-16, delegates from around the world will
gather for the
Millennium+5
Summit to gauge progress in reaching the
Development Goals. At that
time, feminists are hoping to push through their gender mainstreaming
plan.
These Gender Warriors go about spreading calumnies about the
mistreatment of women at the hands of selfish patriarchs. Their aim is
to shame and intimidate men so they eventually acquiesce to their
divisive and destructive agenda.
US House of Representatives, I hope you're taking note.
