Assassinated Pakistan Leader Benazir Bhutto Was Strong Abortion Opponent

Life News ^ | 12/27/07 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Islamabad, Pakistan (LifeNews.com) -- The world mourned the loss of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, but her death was more than a setback for those hoping for democracy in this war-torn nation. Bhutto was a member of an international pro-life women's movement that understood abortion causes medical, mental health and other problems for women.

When Bhutto was the prime minister of Pakistan, she helped lead a delegation to the 1994 Cairo population conference that confronted abortion advocates looking to make abortion an international right.

"I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction," she told the United Nations panel at the time.

Bhutto was one of only two women to address the conference.

Instead of telling women in nations where population growth is an issue that they should kill their offspring, Bhutto told world leaders that the best solutions is "tackling infant mortality, by providing villages with electrification, by raising an army of women."

She hoped to "educate our mothers, sisters, daughters, in child welfare and population control, by setting up a bank run by women for women, to help women achieve economic independence, and to have the wherewithal to make independent choices.”

Bhutto warned conference participants that "this conference must not be viewed by the teeming masses of the world as a universal social charter seeking to impose adultery, abortion...and other such matters on individuals, societies and religions which have their own social ethos."

One of the leading pro-life women's groups in the United States, Feminists for Life of America, honored Bhutto in the 1998 issue of its publication The American Feminist. The group named Bhutto as one of the first and best "remarkable pro-life women" around the world.

"Prime Minister Bhutto advocated a more holistic approach to resolving population-control issues worldwide," the group said of the Pakistani leader.

FFLA said Bhutto prefers "the empowerment of women" over their destruction via abortion.

Related web sites:
Feminists for Life of America - http://www.feministsforlife.org

[wagglebee]

Bhutto was one of the few sane voices left in the Muslim world and she will be missed.

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[yldstrk]

What does that have to do with the price of eggs? I am happy to hear it, however.......the point is al quaida is taking over Pak and Afghanistan and India hang in the balance, get it?

[Brilliant]

There probably aren’t too many in the Muslim world who favor abortion.

[wagglebee]

But she didn’t believe in killing innocent people at all.

[Brilliant]

I’m not criticizing Bhutto. I’m just pointing out that virtually every Muslim is opposed to abortion, so it’s not surprising that she was too.

[wagglebee]

However, she spoke about it in terms of women’s rights which is certainly not something most Muslims believe in.

[Brilliant]

yep, you’re right about that.

[RKBA Democrat]

Ms. Bhutto was a politician in Pakistan. Abortion is against the law there as it is in almost all islamic countries.

I’m not ready to join the multitudes in pronouncing Ms. Bhutto a saint, as she plainly wasn’t one.

[Harrius Magnus]

Wow, talk about the price of tea in China. Talk about looking at the world through a pinhole.

W., I love you man, but this is the best definition of “single issue politics” I’ve seen for a long time.

[RGPII]

Neither was Eva Peron.

[the invisib1e hand]

There probably aren’t too many in the Muslim world who favor abortion.

Can't argue details here but an acquaintance who is a muslim informs me it is permitted by the religion; though given their hangups about women I would daresay it's not as easy as buying a cheeseburger at McDonald's like it is here.

[yankeedame]

What does that have to do with the price of eggs?

My thoughts exactly. I read the article's headline and thought, "So? What does this have to do with anything?"

[SevenofNine]

Something you probably didn’t know about Benizer

[beaversmom]

I think it’s just remembering something about the woman on the day of her death that was important to her. Nothing wrong in that IMO. Gives you a picture of the kind of person she was. I don’t know much about her. I’m interested in reading it.

[Maine Mariner]

I am actually a bit surprised that she was opposed to abortion. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, marched in demonstrations against the Vietnam war while in the US.
Sounds like all of the characteristics of someone who would be pro abortion.

[KPfromDerryNH]

Thats right, I concur. It is interesting to read about her belief that it would be beneficial to all to empower women economically and to read she was also pro life. This is often an opinion pair that, if a strong woman has, is not often glorified in traditional media outlets in this country.

[Mojohemi]

I am still confused about the liberals trying to protect the islamic fanatics in Iraq and other places. Clearly Islam hates everything a liberal stands for and would stop the liberals by whatever means they could to install Islam by force.Homosexuals would go underground or be killed, abortion would be punished or the woman would be killed, is there anything a Muslim would like about a liberal?