UNFPA Head Never Asked Us to Meet with Her
By Austin Ruse | January 17, 2011
My colleagues and I will be posting all this week on the remarkable interview that Thoraya Obaid gave to the Huffington Post about her ten years as head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). I will stick to one question and answer that goes right to the heart of truth-telling. Here is the the exchange:
Have you met these critics from the religious right?
I have never been able to sit down with them. They come to meetings but have not wanted to meet. Their narratives, and stories, are very far from the reality and my impression is that they do not want to listen to the evidence
I can speak for all of the pro-lifers who work at the UN, we would have been happy to meet with Mrs. Obaid anywhere, anytime during her tenure at the UN. Did we ever, even once, turn down her invitation to meet? Never. Not once. We never got that invitation. And she says our stories “are very far from reality”?
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