Bill of Rights for Childhood Sex
But the head of a New York-based pro-family organization says it is nothing more than an effort to increase Planned Parenthood's revenue from abortion.
Austin Ruse, President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, recently said the manifesto “essentially says children ought to go out and be sexually experimental and promiscuous, and there should be no fetters, no rules and no shame.”
“They published this youth manifesto, which is essentially a blueprint for young people to go out and carry the banner for the agenda of International Planned Parenthood Federation in this country and countries all over the world,” Ruse said. “It is essentially a bill of rights for childhood sexual experimentation. It also encourages them to try and beat up on their governments if there are any laws that prohibit them from doing these things. It is a broad, expansive call to arms for young people to support IPPF.”
Ruse, speaking to the American Family Association's Director of Governmental Affairs, Pat Trueman, said the manifesto is deceiving in that IPPF promotes it as representing the needs and desires of all children around the world.
“It explicitly says the document 'reflects what young people around the world view as crucial to their sexual and reproductive needs and rights,'” Ruse said of the manifesto. “It claims to speak for all young people around the world, and it turns out, by their own admission, that it was written by 16 kids and ratified by 43 others. And this very small group under heavy IPPF supervision wrote this document, and they're saying it's practically universal. And, of course, that's crazy. I think most kids would look [in disbelief] at this particular document.”
Marketing Abortion
Perhaps even more deceiving, though, is what Ruse said is the bottom-line reasoning behind the manifesto.
“What I think it is really is a sales tool,” he said. “I came out of the world of business, and I can recognize a sales pitch when I hear it. And Planned Parenthood sells abortion; they're the largest seller of abortion in the world. And this sales tool encourages the kind of behavior in children which will inevitably lead to the abortion clinic. And chances are the abortion clinic they walk into will be an IPPF abortion clinic. So this document is a sales tool to encourage abortion among young people.”
The manifesto's stated goals include:
• Young people must have information and education on sexuality and the best possible reproductive health services (including contraceptives).
• Sexual and reproductive health education must be accurate, reliable and responsive to the physical and emotional needs of young people of all ages and sexual lifestyles.
• Young people must be able to have pleasure and confidence in relationships and all aspects of sexuality. Young people must be supported by laws that allow them to live freely in the way they choose to live their lives.
• Young people's sexuality should have a positive image in society. Society must recognise (sic) the right of all young people to enjoy sex and to express their sexuality in the way that they choose.
“It is the blueprint of youth participation for IPPF in the United Nations and in governments around the world.” Ruse said. “It calls upon them to lobby the change of laws in their own countries, and specifically calls for the youth to take this document into the halls of the United Nations and show it to the delegates as what children want.”
According to Ruse, IPPF is using the manifesto to falsely represent that young people are fully on their side. “This really will be a rallying point for hand-picked, well-funded young people to go the United Nations, to go to the U.S. Congress, to go to state legislatures and lobby all levels of government to strike down laws that prohibit the broadest understanding of contraceptives and abortion and sterilization,” he said.
U.N. Delegates Surprised
“[W]hat they don't say is that most contraceptives — the morning-after pill, the IUD, RU-486 — are flatly abortificient; they cause abortion,” Ruse said. “So what they're trying to do is strike down any restrictions on [this] terrible reproductive rights technology.”
Ruse said reaction to the manifesto in the UN has been one of surprise.
“It really is startling here in my work at the United Nations, because they fly in dozens of young people who say the most outrageous things to UN delegates,” Ruse said. “And UN delegates from developing countries are well and truly shocked at what young people say that they want.”
The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute of New York is the first full-time lobbying group on pro-life matters at the UN. The group, in operation for about four years, works with Catholic and Evangelical groups to lobby the UN to protect life and family and religious freedom.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
