A UNICEF MATERNAL HEALTH KIT FOR YOUR MUM ON MOTHERS DAY? Pros and cons
Therese Rein, wife of Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, wants Australian families to give their mothers a UNICEF maternal health kit for Mothers Day this year.
She told ABC Radio that, while one in 13,000 Australian women die in childbirth, in some developing countries it is as high as one in 8.
This blog is not questioning Therese Rein’s motives.
But there are always questions every time UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) gets involved in anything.
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These UNICEF kits contain items needed to make childbirth away from a hospital safer. They include sterile dressings, equipment to cut umbilical cords safely etc.
UNICEF plans to provide these kits to lots of pregnant women in developing countries.
All of which sounds good.
But it’s always a worry when abortion-promoting agencies like UNICEF start diversifying into areas that are good.
Nobody wants women to continue being deprived of medically-safe childbirth.
But can we trust UNICEF not to tie availability of these excellent kits to a poor community’s willingness to promote abortion, sterilisation, contraception and other ethically-loaded forms of non-help?
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In January 2010, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, President of the G-8 group of nations, announced that G-8-funded maternal health care would include only positive assistance – clean water, inoculations, nutrition, training health workers in safe childbirth etc.
Then what happened?
Feminist and other population control groups set up an organization called “White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood”, specifically to lobby G-8 countries to include “sexual and reproductive health and rights” (which, in English, means abortion), in their maternal health care plans.
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UNICEF repeatedly asserts that access to abortion reduces maternal mortality — and that mortality rates haven’t decreased in decades.
However, British medical journal, Lancet, in April 2010, reported that maternal mortality has decreased by 35% globally since 1980 — and that UN agencies significantly overstate maternal mortality rates.
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To include abortion in maternal health care proposals is to impose western anti-child values and practices on developing nations, contrary to their cultures and religion.
A policy perhaps best described as “elitist western imperialism”, in that it imposes population control ideology under the disguise of maternal health.
I think giving out Health kits to mothers in Developing countries is a good idea. but we must realise in the hand of help being extended; knowing the culture, believes and practices of the people in some of these countries in very pertinent.
‘We don’t want our women to continue being deprived of medically-safe childbirth.
But we also don’t want some groups to tie availability of these excellent kits to a poor community’s willingness to promote abortion, sterilisation, contraception and other ethically-loaded forms of non-help’. To include abortion in maternal health care proposals is to impose western anti-child values and practices on developing nations, especially Afican Countries which is contrary to their cultures and religions. So i believe we should check the consequence of our actions even if done in good faith.
Help us save our Mothers.