C-Fam’s Worst 5 Moments of 2020 for Life and Family

By | January 1, 2021

NEW YORK, January 1 (C-Fam) Here is where we saw the pro-life and pro-family cause suffer most in 2020, a year that will go down in history as both tragic and memorable.

1.  The “Election” of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States

He will immediately fund groups that perform and promote abortion overseas as well as the UN Population Fund, a major engine pushing abortion on the developing world. He will try and make abortion a humanitarian right and shut out Catholic and other pro-life organizations from international aid programs for refusing to provide abortion. He will continue to muddy UN policy with terms like “sexual and reproductive health” in order to promote abortion. And he will also promote the entire LGBT agenda, with all its totalitarian elements.

2. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Makes Abortion “Essential” to COVID-19 Response

It didn’t take long for the UN system to use the latest global emergency to opportunistically promote abortion. By April, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ $7 billion UN system-wide appeal for assistance to respond to the pandemic made “sexual and reproductive health” an essential category in the COVID-19 response. He specifically called on the humanitarian response to be guided by UN agency documents which say that medical personnel must refer for abortions even against their consciences.

3. UN Member States Add Humanitarian Abortion and LGBT issues to UNFPA Mandate

The Executive Board of the UN Population Fund approved a change to the agency’s strategy that will allow the agency to promote abortion as a humanitarian right. The strategy now includes a pro-abortion manifesto called the “Nairobi Summit Statement,” which adds “access to abortion to the full extent of the law” as part of the “the right to sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian and fragile contexts.” It also expanded the definition of “sexual and reproductive health” to include homosexual and transgender rights. Despite a last minute dash to try and change this, the Trump administration was unable to block this. And it will come back to haunt us in years to come.

4. The European Parliament Endorses a Human Right to Abortion

The European Parliament is not a tremendously powerful institution. Other than having some oversight of the functioning of the EU bureaucracy most of its work can be dismissed as political rhetoric. But it still hurt to see the vast majority of members of the Parliament, all elected politicians from across the European continent, endorse abortion as a human right. Virtually none voted against it, not even conservatives, and only a few abstained. We are at a watershed moment in the international pro-life fight. Europe may be irremediably lost.

5. Trump Re-Launches U.S. LGBT advocacy at the United Nations

Even though President Donald Trump promised repeatedly to countries that his administration would not try to impose U.S. values on the rest of the world, his Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, made it his mission to launch a global campaign to promote social acceptance of homosexuality. Because of this campaign, U.S diplomats in Geneva and New York have been able to re-vamp U.S. LGBT foreign policy, with multiple interventions to support LGBT rights. They are the same diplomats the Obama administration used to promote LGBT rights. And they are the same diplomats that will promote LGBT rights under a Biden administration, if and when it materializes.

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