Strategy of deception by ASPIRE

THE EDITOR:  Once again ASPIRE seeks to make its case for legalising abortion based on deception. ANSA McAl Psychological Research Centre conducted a poll on our citizens’ response to the legalisation of abortion. This poll concluded that our people do not want the murder of our innocent children  legalised in Trinidad and Tobago. What is ASPIRE’s response?  Well, they say, two in three women in TT have had an abortion by age 44 — as if evidence of rampant crime of any sort could be the rationale for legalising such activity! But it is simply false to claim that two in three women in TT have had an abortion by age 44. There is absolutely no reliable statistical support for this claim — but it won’t be the first time that pro-abortionists resort to this kind of deception.

In Dr Bernard Nathanson’s book Aborting America, {Dr Nathanson is one of the original leaders of the American pro-abortion movement and co-founder of NARAL, (National Abortion Rights Action League)}, he admits that he and others in the abortion rights movement intentionally fabricated the number of women who allegedly died as a result of illegal abortions. He says: “In NARAL, we emphasised the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year. “I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics.” To add insult to injury, ASPIRE states that their desire is driven by a desire to improve maternal health.  This from an IPPF/UNFPA affiliate — those who would cite China as a model for other countries, China with its 15 million young Chinese women being aborted in one year with approximately 90 percent under coercive circumstances.

Madam Peng Yu, Vice Minister of the State Family Planning Commission of China, revealed that the International Planned Parenthood Federation is one of the “major international agencies that have been extending cooperation to China.” (“An Interview with Peng Yu, Vice Minister of the State Family Planning Commission.” Integration, March 1994, page 32.) After two decades of involvement in China, IPPF is not only thoroughly familiar with, but wholeheartedly supports Beijing’s coercive family planning programme, a programme that includes forced contraception and sterilisation, compulsory abortion, widespread sex-selection abortions, and the notorious “dying rooms” for less-than-perfect newborn babies.

The sorrow is that a few of our own people have been seduced and are working feverishly to bring to pass the vision of the IPPF for our nation. But I am confident that God will protect us from this evil, even as He protected us from the terrible Ivan. To say that Trinidad and Tobago is not blessed with divine providence and divine protection is to “have eyes but cannot see, ears but cannot hear.” But I thank God for our government which has succeeded, with His grace, in resisting the tactics of international agencies hell bent on arresting the growth of Third World peoples.

MARIA ANNETTE  DOPWELL
Port-of-Spain