Pope Benedict on his recent pilgrimage to Fatima referred to abortion as one of the most “insidious and dangerous“ threats facing the world today.
Yet after overturning the Mexico City Policy almost immediately upon assuming office, the Obama administration has increased funding of many national and international pro-abortion groups. President Obama has purposefully chosen to use millions of taxpayer dollars in this effort to significantly increase the U.S. Government subsidies of the abortion industry both home and abroad.
Under the guise of “family planning” the Obama administration has systematically filled the coffers of the abortion mills and abortion peddlers throughout the world. Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) highlighted this subsidization of the killing of unborn children at a recent press conference held by the Pro-Life Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives when he stated: “When Obama shredded the Mexico City Policy, he opened the floodgates of taxpayer funds to pro-abortion NGO’s (ie. International Planned Parenthood Federation) that perform and lobby for abortion worldwide.” At the press conference, Congressman Smith and other pro-life representatives revealed the details of a GAO report that illustrated the increased level of funding for organizations such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Population Council of the US and other pro-abortion groups.
In their meeting last July, Pope Benedict gave Mr. Obama a leather-bound copy of his encyclical Caritas in Veritate. President Obama suggested to the Holy Father that he was committed to reducing the number of abortions and support alternatives. Choosing to ignore the president’s promise to the pope, the Obama administration has only increased abortion through its generous subsidies of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support the agents of the “Culture of Death.”
President Obama would do well to re-read the powerful and profound encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, once again. This time the president might dwell on Pope Benedict’s insightful examination of the issue of the respect for human life where he states emphatically that “when a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good.” After such a careful reading perhaps President Obama might begin to heed rather than ignore the pontiff’s wisdom and to refocus his energy and motivation in striving “for man’s true good” – not in the funding of the destruction of innocent unborn lives.
