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Posted on 04/03/2008 5:10:32 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, April 3, 2008 (c-fam.org)- A two-year old report has come to light that encourages foundations to fund religious organizations who agree to push the abortion agenda around the world. The report which was funded by the wealthy MacArthur and Ford Foundations, catalogues hundreds of religiously affiliated non-government organizations that are likely to include “sexual and reproductive health and rights” as part of their work.
“Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Inventory of Organization, Scholars and Foundations,” issued by the Center for Health and Social Policy, argues that the world’s religions play an undeniable role in shaping attitudes toward "reproduction and sexuality" and can “be an important ally in the effort to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (or, conversely, a key obstacle).”
The report encourages foundations who are “striving to improve women’s health and rights (including sexual and reproductive health and rights) to incorporate religion in their grant-making,” as religions “have the power to influence government policy” both through the political process and through the religious belief of the policymakers.
The authors propose a three-pronged approach to increase interest in the intersection of religion and abortion. First, foundations could provide incentives to American groups already working in the field so that they could collaborate with developing country organizations. Second, foundations could engage both religious and secular scholars to study the topic in depth. But the most promising tactic, according the study’s authors, is to provide incentives to organizations working on religion and women’s rights or health to move to address religion and sexuality and reproduction directly.
The 216-page report is mostly a listing of organizations which might be induced through grant money to work at the intersection of religion and abortion. Organizations from across the globe affiliated with all the major world religions are included.
Also listed is a long list of influential pro-abortion groups including the Alan Guttmacher Institute, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the International Women’s Health Coalition, Population Action International, Catholics For a Free Choice (in particular its Latin American affiliates), the Pro-Choice Religious Network, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Other big names include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the World YWCA.
Apart from listing organizations that might qualify as grant recipients, the report also highlights sixteen foundations which have financially supported sexual and reproductive health and rights programs in the past. Six of the sixteen foundations specifically mention abortion as a priority area. According to the report, the capital assets of the foundations listed total more than $35 billion and approximately $500 million is given away in grant money each year.
More than 25 MILLION females are aborted worldwide each year, it is axiomatic that this DOES NOT "improve" women's health and rights.
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Will they be including islam on their list?
sick. Very sick.
“Will they be including islam on their list?”
LOL
I double dog dare them.
What is this for?
You can download the report here:
http://www.chsp.org/Religion_and_Sexual_and_Reproductive_Health_and_Rights.pdf
Clearly it's a business decision; but why, ostensibly, should they give a rip?
Perhaps foundations have outlived their usefulness. Many that started with worthy objectives have been hijacked by their trustees in the service of weirdness. Many were probably ill-conceived, though well-intentioned, from the start. Some just let wealthy but kookie individuals pursue objectives during and after their lives which in no way deserve the tax exemption that foundations enjoy.(When you die, you die and your {former} money should not prolong the reality of your demise).
If a cause is worthy, then it will gain support and maintain support from the current giving of those who are interested in it. It won’t need a foundation to sustain it, and the givers to the cause won’t tolerate a bunch of paid professionals profitting from not-for-profits who elbow aside the people who actually care about the causes.
The same applies to universities. Most of their endowments were from people who would be mortified by most of their present policies, and some of their endowments were expressly given for purposes which the universities would rather die than honor, such as providing an education for a white christian male from Meridian. So the university hires lawyers to redefine white, redefine christian, redefine male, and redefine Meridian, so the scholarship can go to some transgender basketball player from Yuma who will save the women’s basketball team from being an institutional embarassment, or an organ grinder from Chechnya who can make the moslem mid-day call to prayer sound more like a polka to help disguise what it really is.
If you want to make a mark with your money, look around your neighborhood and use it for the advantage of people you know in the here-and-now. If you don’t, glib-tongued opportunistic strangers will enjoy living well off the proceeds of your bequest, while giving what they can’t use of your money to people you never knew and never would have wanted to have known.
These 2 foundations are also sponsors of NPR. Anything to get their perverse message out, right?
Speaking of double dog dare, I double dog dare Ford to get off their dead butts and build a better auto and keep their meat hooks off womens personal body parts.
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Hmmm... Something tells me the leftists won’t be complaining about the use of religion to acheive THEIR political agenda. It’s only wrong when we on the right do it. Then they yell “separation of church and state”.
WHOA!
Many of those foundations were formed with good intentions, but some were formed to enable wealthy elitists to push their agendas. Many long ago adopted an attitude about controlling population growth; some allied with Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood early on, because they wanted to control the numbers of people who were of color, or of the wrong religion (Catholics, particularly). They considered these folks to be of lesser intelligence, therefore, they wanted them to NOT muck up the gene pool.
I was not surprised to see the Ford foundation, they had ties to the Nazis.
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