Counters anti-lifers at the U.N.

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Jeanne Head has traveled the world to speak on life issues. Today, the International Right to Life Federation's representative to the United Nations is speaking at Siena College in Loudonville.

Ms. Head, a nurse who also founded the New York City metro area's Birthright Hotline and serves as president of New York State Nurses for Life, is discussing tactics used by abortion advocates at the U.N. to promote abortion worldwide.

The speaker told The Evangelist those tactics are threefold.

Distortions

First, she said, abortion advocates "hit the emotions and distort the maternal mortality rate from abortion" to gain sympathy. Ms. Head asserted that there has not been a significant change in that rate in four decades.

Abortion, said the U.N. representative, simply limits the number of children born in Third World countries. She noted that introducing abortion in countries where there is no clean water, antibiotics or other advanced medical care could prove more detrimental than helpful.

She added that the real way to decrease the maternal mortality rate is through better health care for mothers, not abortion.

Semantics

The second way abortion advocates further their cause in the U.N., said Ms. Head, is through "using semantics like `reproductive health' or `reproductive rights'" when they're really talking about abortion.

Third, Ms. Head said, abortion advocates attack religion. "They attack the Catholic hierarchy and say, `They're trying to impose their morality,'" she stated, adding that some pro-abortionists have "launched a campaign to get the Holy See thrown out of the U.N."

The U.N. representative told The Evangelist that abortion advocates put pressure on specific countries, berating Latin American and Muslim countries for "cooperating with Christians" and advocating abortion as a means of population control.

(Ms. Head's talk is at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 14, at Siena College's Our Lady of Angels Chapel. Admission is free. Contact the International Right to Life Federation at 212-947-2692.)

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