UK national survey of homosexual population

The homosexual and lesbian agenda is constantly being promoted with the aggressively positive message that this particular grouping makes up a significant part of the general population.

That lie has now been well and truly laid to rest with the news that the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in Great Britain has published its findings following a survey to establish the actual homosexual population in that jurisdiction. The results show that this group of people makes up the grand total of 1.5 per cent of the entire population. A far cry from the much vaunted figure of 10 per cent! The highest concentration of homosexuals – 2.2 per cent - is to be found in London, and the lowest figure – 0.9 – predictably, is in the Six Counties of Northern Ireland.

I wonder if the Irish Government ministers who insisted on pushing legislation for Civil Unions for homosexuals through the two houses of parliament recently, with indecent speed, might reflect on these figures. Somehow, I doubt it. There is too much at stake for their EU and global reputations, and they must be seen to be ‘tolerant’, ‘liberal’ and ‘inclusive’ in granting ‘human rights’ to those who have openly declared and boasted that their aim and purpose is to destroy the family

Maltese pro-life crisis pregnancy support group credited with saving babies lives

According to a report in the Malta Independent a crisis pregnancy support group has been effective in saving babies lives. The group called "Hope" which is a branch of the pro-life organisation "Gift of Life"is reported to have saved the lives of 60 babies in the last three years. Gift of Life spokesman Paul Vincenti said the group seeks to help pregnant women who are considering an abortion.
One of the channels the group uses to promote the right to life of the unborn is a marketing campaign by means of advertisements published in magazines distributed on all Air Malta flights and Virtu Ferries trips to Sicily.

“We aim to target any pregnant women on their way to have an abortion in Sicily, the UK or elsewhere,"

Vincenti explained.

“We never try forcing people not to have an abortion. We adopt a non-judgemental approach. Our people speak to mothers-to-be in strict confidentiality and help them make informed decisions by providing them with support and information about pregnancy and foetal development, as well as available support and options,"

he added.

Hope provides free pregnancy testing and non-diagnostic ultrasound scanning, referrals (obstetric, gynecological, social, as well as referrals for professional support to women who have experienced pregnancy loss through abortion), emotional support, practical assistance and support, and psychotherapy.

China’s Silent Holocaust to continue

China’s disastrous one child policy, now thirty years old has wreaked havoc and destruction on the Chinese people. This policy is responsible for the termination of an estimated 400 million babies lives, it has destroyed the lives of millions of women, skewed the countries sex ratio creating huge population imbalances that will make it impossible for many Chinese men to find wives and has also resulted in a rapidly ageing population.

Despite all of this however it is reported that the policy is set to continue according to many reports; see Irish Independent report as follows

China will continue to limit most families to just one child in the coming decades, state media said yesterday, despite concerns about the policy's problematic side effects, such as too few girls and a rapidly ageing population.
China has the world's largest population and credits its 30-year-old family planning limits with preventing 400 million additional births and helping to break a traditional preference for large families that had left many trapped in poverty.
There had been growing speculation about whether the government would relax the policy, allowing more people to have two children. A family planning official in the southern province of Guangdong had predicted his province would loosen the restrictions by 2015.
But the 'China Daily' newspaper yesterday quoted Li Bin, head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying there were no changes planned.

Rules
The family planning rules, which limit urban couples to one child and rural couples to two, have curbed China's population growth but brought new problems, such as an expanding elderly population that demographers say will be increasingly hard to support.
The policy is also blamed for the country's skewed sex ratio. Chinese families with a strong preference for boys sometimes resort to aborting their baby girls. Demographers worry the imbalance will make it hard for men to find wives.
The male-female ratio at birth in China is about 119 males to 100 females, with the gap as high as 130 males for every 100 females in some provinces. In industrialised countries, the ratio is 107 to 100.

European Centre for Law and Justice express concern on freedom of conscience in Spain at UN meeting

The Human rights Council in Geneva is currently considering the final reports of the 8th session of the new universal periodic review held in May

During the final report on Spain Grégor Puppinck of the EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR LAW AND JUSTICE told the meeting that his organisation took notice with great attention of the report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review concerning Spain and its various recommendations.

The ECLJ, as an NGO specialized in the defense of freedom of conscience is very disappointed that a major issue has not been properly addressed in this report: I mean the fact that over 50,000 parents have, in the recent years, conscientiously objected to the participation of their children to a compulsory curriculum, in both State and private Schools, because they do not want their children to be indoctrinated against their faith and deep convictions.

The Spanish educational system established a new teaching called “Education for Citizenship” (EFC), that introduces both evaluable and compulsory subjects at Primary and Secondary school. The core subjects of Education for Citizenship have been designed, as the official curriculum states in order to shape the conscience of children, getting deep into their values and their personal and family privacy and, in many cases, conflicting those values. These subjects are strongly rejected by an important part of the Spanish society and nearly 55,000 parents have conscientiously objected to the participation of their children to this compulsory curriculum. Parents have formed more than 70 local and regional associations to support objectors and inform parents and to protest against this direct violation of their fundamental right to educate their children according to their own religious and philosophical convictions.
Nearly 2,300 judicial complaints have been lodged in less than two years as a consequence of Education for Citizenship in the national compulsory curriculum. In most of the cases (aprox. 86%), during the past tree years, local and regional courts sentenced against government. Last year, in 2009, against the opinion of the overwhelming majority of local courts, the Supreme Court denied the rights of the objecting parents,. Some parents have also claimed before the Constitutional Court, which has also dismissed the parents.

Mr President, this case is a major issue concerning freedom of conscience that the Spanish government should redress as soon as possible. The working group should have addressed it

Mr President, in this new school year, thousands of families will face again the schools and the Courts because they do not want their children to be indoctrinated against their deep faith and convictions.
Those families have not hope to see their rights respected in a near future at the national level, and they call the Human Right Council to address this issue.

Conscientious objection to abortion under threat in the Council of Europe

A report on conscientious objection in medicine will be debated in early October in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). PACE consists of elected representatives from the legislatures of the 47 member-states of the Council of Europe. (Please note that the council is entirely separate from the European Union.) The report’s focus is conscientious objection to abortion, contraception, IVF and euthanasia. If the report is passed, Council of Europe member-states will be under pressure effectively to abolish in law and practice conscientious objection within medicine.

Please contact your country’s representatives in PACE telling them that: you object to the report “Women’s access to lawful medical care: the problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection,” proposed by Christine McCafferty (UK) the report is due to be debated in the PACE plenary session between the fourth and eighth of October

Conscientious objection is recognised as a fundamental human right in international law, but abortion is not ask your representatives to vote against the report as a whole, and to support any pro-life amendments that may be tabled
Here are some facts and pro-life arguments you may wish to use in your message to your country’s PACE representatives:
Access to abortion is not a human right. In the case of Tysiac v. Poland the European Court of Human Rights ruled that states have sovereign rights to regulate abortion, and that medical staff have a right of conscientious objection to abortion;

The report’s attitude to conscientious objection within medicine is in stark contrast to Council of Europe documents upholding a right to conscientious objection to military service;

The report proposes an official complaints procedure which would violate natural justice e.g. no right to representation, no guarantee of impartiality, no right of appeal;

The establishment of an official complaints procedure seeks to legitimise objective wrongs (e.g. abortion), and contravenes EU directives which state that no court or committee can penetrate or examine a person’s conscience.

The report mistakes conscientious objection to objective wrongs (e.g. abortion) for unregulated disobedience based on subjective personal beliefs.

The report’s anti-life bias comes from its anti-life authors: Christine McCafferty (UK); Dr Christian Fiala, International Federation of Professional Abortion and Contraception Associates; and Ms Christina Zampas, Center for Reproductive Rights, New York.

More information in support of these points can be found via the European Centre for Law and Justice

SPUC has also produced an in-depth background briefing on the McCafferty report.

Please copy any replies you receive from country representatives to patrick@europeanlifenetwork.org