Special thanks to Valerie Huber for her past and present leadership of the Institute for Women’s Health to ensure the health and well-being of all women worldwide, the strengthening of the family and durable protection of all human beings including the weakest and most vulnerable—unborn babies.
And special thanks—and congratulations—to Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, for the amazing work he and his government under Prime Minister Victor Orban are doing to advance a culture of life.
The protection of unborn children and their mothers from the violence of abortion is what led me to run for Congress. The right to life is the preeminent human right from which all other rights are derived.
The Geneva Consensus Declaration is an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves—and to the best of our ability, in our home nations and in international fora—to boldly, effectively and tenaciously defend human life from all manifestations of violence.
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Let us recommit today, with faith in God, love and compassion, to tangibly assist women—especially through the extraordinary work of pregnancy care centers—to protect their precious babies and women’s lives from the violence and cruelty of abortion.
Pregnancy care centers are under siege by Planned Parenthood—also known as Child Abuse Inc—an organization that lobbies for abortion on demand until birth and has killed over ten million babies in their nefarious clinics in the United States alone.
As you know, Planned Parenthood—and like-minded NGOs including IPPF and Marie Stopes International (now called MSI) to name just a few—are promoting abortion: a weapon of mass destruction around the world.
Today let us recommit to exposing abortion methods to a world that has chosen to be blind to the realities of brutally dismembering helpless babies with sharp knife-like curettes or poisoning babies with abortion pills that literally starve them to death and often result in their bodies being flushed down a toilet.
Medication abortion, also known as chemical abortion and medical abortion, now account for more than 60% of abortions in the U.S.
It is an existential threat to women and children.
Tragically, access to abortion drugs is the global goal of abortion promoters at the United Nations, especially by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Just this past September, WHO added a new section to the all-important Essential Medicines List titled: Medicines for medical abortion. It listed the abortion drug mifepristone— which causes the starvation death of the child in the womb—and the drug misoprostol which induces uterine contractions and forces the child out of the womb.
This addition is the first time that WHO has included “Medicines for medical abortion” without the caveat language acknowledging “Where permitted under national law and where culturally acceptable”.
We are now witnessing the greatest promotion of abortion from the United Nations since the 1994 U.N. Cairo Population Control Conference.
I know. I was in Cairo as the most unwelcome member of the U.S. delegation under the Clinton administration.
After many arguments and pressure during that conference—including and especially a massive push by Bill Clinton to establish an international right to abortion, which failed—the world agreed that “in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning” and that “any measures or changes related to abortion within the health system can only be determined at the national or local level according to the national legislative process.”
But now, abortion is being promoted both inside and outside national health systems—a danger to both women and children and a threat to sovereignty.
While we have long known that mifepristone causes the starvation death of children alive in the womb but not yet born—it is baby poison—we now know with greater certitude that their mothers are also being seriously harmed as well.
In a first-of-its-kind study, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women”, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) on April 28th revealed that serious adverse events from mifepristone are approximately 22 times more frequent than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently recognizes.
That’s absolutely shocking.
This largest-ever study of the abortion pill shows that, following a mifepristone abortion, 11% of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event. That is, over one in ten patients experience at least one serious adverse event.
Out of a deep and abiding concern for the health and safety of women and children, the pro-life movement and pro-life Members of Congress are demanding that the deleterious and grossly underreported effects on women from the drug mifepristone be aggressively investigated by the FDA and decisive action taken to protect women from harm.
The decades-long cover up must end.
Abortion drugs have a complication rate higher than surgical abortion.
To address and significantly mitigate maternal mortality and morbidity, Maternal Life International has created an amazing program called “safe passages” to ensure that a pregnant woman has access to trained birth attendants, emergency obstetric care, safe blood transfusion services, and adequate rural healthcare infrastructure.
These are the challenges that demand attention and resources, not access to a drug that terminates a baby’s life and forces a mother to expel her child in a toilet or latrine
The Geneva Consensus reaffirms the inherent “dignity and worth of the human person” that “every human being has the inherent right to life” and that we are committed to enabling women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy child.
The Geneva Consensus Declaration represents unity across nations and faith traditions. It reaffirms the right to life for the unborn child. It recognizes that strong families are the cornerstone of healthy societies. And it asserts the sovereign right of each nation to defend these values without coercion from international bodies or donor governments.
It is a call to action.
We have hope. We have just begun.
LifeNews Note: The above are excerpts of remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at the Geneva Declaration summit.
