New U.N. “Superhero” Advocacy Team for MDGs Includes Noted Abortion/Population Control Supporters
By Samantha Singson, LifeSite News
For months, the international community has been preparing for the September review summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As part of the preparations, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently announced the formation of an MDG advocacy team composed of prominent politicos and philanthropists who will "build political will and mobilize action on the eight Goals." The list, which includes noted population control supporters and abortion advocates, is causing concern.
At the announcement, Ban Ki-moon praised his advocacy team as "a collection of superheroes in fighting poverty." Co-chairing the superheroes are President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain. Group members, who are assigned to specific development goals, include former President Michelle Bachelet of Chile, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, cable billionaire Ted Turner and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Feminist groups have been targeting the September meeting as an opportunity to push for abortion as part of MDG 5 to "improve maternal health" and some have expressed dismay over the gender composition of the advocacy team. A recent post on the Ted Turner-funded RH Reality Check website decried "the gross irony" that in the same week that the UN announced the creation of a new agency on women, there is a gender imbalance on the UN high-level advocacy team.
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