Pagpili

Daghan ang rason sa pagpili sa kandidato. Ekonomiya, imigrasyon, kawad-on ug polisang panglangyaw. Apan adunay isyu nga midyo nataligam-an sa tawo tungod  sa sobrang paglantaw  sa  iyang kaugalingong interes. Kon atong siksikon ug subayon ang kutay sa interes sa isyu sa ekonomiya, imigrasyon, kawad-on ug polisang panglangyaw mouli ra gihapon kini sa kaugalingong interes ug mahulog sa usa ka kategoriya nga gitawag og materyalismo. Kini nga mga isyu nagpunting sa kaayohan sa kinabuhi sa mga nahimugso na, mga tawo nga maantigo na nga modepensa sa ilang kaugalingon, makatingog ug makareklamo sa kalisod.

Apan sa gikaingon ko na sa unahan adunay isyu nga nataligam-an. Ang isyu sa kinabuhi nga dili intawon pa makatingog ug makapanalipod sa iyang kaugalingon. Kinabuhi nga gapitik ug gasalig sa pusod nga midugtong kaniya sa iyang inahan. Inosente apan naangin sa pinakayawan-on nga buhat, ang aborsyon.

Unsa man gayoy labing importanti nga isyu? Nagdepende ba kini sa unsa nga rasa ikaw nahisakop? Nagdepende ba kini sa unsang ang-ang sa ekonomikanhong hut-ong ikaw nahisakop? Kini nga mga isyu dili gyod makalabaw sa isyu sa aborsyon tungod kay mipatay na kini sa minilyon ka kinabuhi sa walay pag-ila sa kapobrehon ug kaadunahan, sa walay pag-ila sa rasa, puti, itom, o tabunon man.

Basi sa taho sa National Right to Life, mokabat sa 48.5 milyones ka aborsyon ang nahitabo sukad sa tuig 1973. Walay gubat, walay katalagman, walay sakit nga makalabaw sa kadaghan sa nangamatay tungod niini.

Sa iyang sulat-pastoral, si Most Reverend  Joseph Martino sa Diyosis sa Scranton, PA mikutlo sa pamahayag sa gisundan niya nga Obispo si Most Reverend Timlin:

“Catholics may not turn away from the moral challenge that abortion poses for those who seek to obey God’s commands. They are wrong when they assert that abortion does not concern them, or that it is only one of a multitude of issues of equal importance. No, the taking of innocent human life is so heinous, so horribly evil, and so absolutely opposite to the law of Almighty God that abortion must take precedence over every other issue. I repeat. It is the single most important issue confronting not only Catholics, but the entire electorate.

My fellow bishops, writing ten years ago, explained why some evils – abortion and euthanasia in particular – take precedence over other forms of violence and abuse. The failure to protect life in its most vulnerable stages renders suspect any claims to the ‘rightness’ of positions in other matters affecting the poorest and least powerful of the human community. If we understand the human person as ‘the temple of the Holy Spirit’ – the living house of God – then these latter issues fall logically into place as the crossbeams and walls of that house. All direct attacks on innocent human life, such as abortion and euthanasia, strike at the house’s foundation [ emphasis in the original]. These directly and  immediately violate the human person’s most fundamental right – the right to life. Neglect of these issues is the equivalent of building our house on sand.”

Democratic Platform Promises More Abortion Overseas/Republican Reject Pro-Abortion UN Treaties

By Austin Ruse of C-Fam.org
        
     (WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) The platforms of the two major American parties show a stark difference in how each presidential candidate would approach United Nations (UN) issues. The Republican platform explicitly rejects various UN treaties while the Democratic platform makes clear its support for the agenda of wider access to abortion and a strengthening of the UN system of enforcing abortion rights.

     The Republican platform rejects by name two UN treaties that have been used by UN Committees, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote abortion — the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — and supports the continued defunding of groups overseas that promote or perform abortions.

     Specifically the GOP platform says, “Because the UN has no mandate to promote radical social engineering, any effort to address global social problems must respect the fundamental institutions of marriage and family. We assert the rights of families in all international programs and will not fund organizations involved in abortion.  We strongly support the long-held policy of the Republican Party known as the ‘Mexico City policy,’ which prohibits federal monies from being given to non-governmental organizations that provide abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries.  We reject any treaty or agreement that would violate those values.  That includes the UN convention on women’s rights, signed in the last months of the Carter Administration, and the UN convention on the rights of the child.”

     This is the first time the Republican platform has specifically rejected these treaties and is likely a reflection of the increasingly radical rulings of the committees empowered to monitor state compliance with them. CEDAW has been used repeatedly by its committee to promote abortion.

     The Democratic platform does not explicitly support either treaty but, according to the National Organization for Women, Democratic nominee Barack Obama supports United States (US) ratification of the CEDAW treaty, as does vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden.  The platform explicitly supports the ideas contained in these treaties and resurrects a slogan used by Hilary Clinton at the Beijing Women’s Conference, “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” This was a rallying cry for abortion at the Beijing conference in 1995.

     The platform states “We must make the United Nations human rights organs more effective, energetic, and effective.” Critics charge that the human rights bodies at the UN are already too energetic and even aggressive in promoting a left-wing social agenda. Critics further charge that these human rights bodies undermine international law by ceding power from sovereign states to bodies made up largely of NGO representatives.

     The Democratic platform also promises to begin funding pro-abortion groups overseas by overturning long-standing US policy against it. The platform also promises that the Democratic president would return to funding the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) which the US Government defunded because of the agency’s links to China’s coercive one-child policy.