Rethink proposed abortion guidelines

According to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, the Government plans to reintroduce guidelines to legalise “safe” abortion. We seriously hope the government does not succumb to pressure and enjoin the nation to an agenda whose real intentions are not clear.

As the abortion debate has been raging locally, another very interesting one has been going on in the USA.

At the centre of the US debate is, first, whether there can be such a thing as safe abortions. But second, and even more critical in the discussions, is the “real” motivation behind the hard push for abortion on demand.

Whereas the pro-abortionists have always argued for the protection of the welfare and life of the woman, independent studies are showing that this could perhaps be but a façade. Behind this veil lies a well-organised multi-billion dollar industry that has its tentacles extending to almost every corner of the globe. And sadly, it seems to be an industry driven by some less-than-noble objectives.

Back in 2008, The Washington Times carried an article questioning some of the behind-the-scene activities of Planned Parenthood, which runs the biggest chain of abortion clinics in America, and indeed worldwide, including in Kenya. For example, it was reported that of the six American women who had died after taking the abortion pill RU-486, four got the pill from a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Complications arose primarily from the clinics’ non-compliance with laid down procedures for dispensing the drug. Even more disturbing was the finding that there may be racial targeting in abortion services, with some analysts placing higher percentages in minority neighbourhoods, and especially among blacks.

Interestingly, this seemed to have been corroborated by a well-documented study in which a researcher from the University of California (UCLA), hired a professional actor to call Planned Parenthood clinics around the country, offering donations to “lower the number of black people” by targeting black babies for abortion. She found that clinics in seven states agreed to take the money, and not one of the employees objected to the caller’s racist remarks or purposes. Some have linked this to Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who not only associated herself with Ku Klux Klan, but apparently aligned herself with eugenicists. By definition, eugenicists is a set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population. As a social philosophy, it advocates for the promotion of higher rates of sexual reproduction for people with desired traits, or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilisation of people with less-desired ones, or both.

Baby Moses escaped it in the days of Pharaoh of Egypt, but Hitler applied it in the Nazi days. Simply put, eugenicists is a form of human GMO, in which abortion could play a critical role. It is these issues and more, that have rekindled the current abortion debate in the US. In a report by Fox News last week —August 18, 2015 — an undercover video showed how the bodies of children killed in abortion clinics were being chopped up and sold as body parts.

Furthermore, multiple undercover videos apparently revealed more evidence about the sale of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood. However, Miranda Blue argued in defence that Planned Parenthood donates the foetal tissue for medical research with the patient’s consent. When challenged about the costs for various foetal tissue parts which Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, discusses in the undercover video; the rebuttal proffered by Jessica Mason Pieklo, a Senior Legal Analyst with RH Reality Check, is interesting. “Those are costs related to transportation, processing, preservation, and other expenses associated with biomedical research and practice.” Whatever the case, chopping up live human persons and “donating” the parts for cash is not only callous but satanic. And yet, this chain of clinics boasts of an annual income of well over $1 billion and, being a non-profit, its president receives an annual “compensation” of almost $1 million.

It is clear that there are several factors here that Kenya must interrogate before we officially enter into partnership with these groups. It is curious that Mr Macharia intends to rename the abortion document, ‘Policy Standards and Guidelines for Preventing Maternal Mortality’. This is like wrapping the murderer’s gun with a towel. The abortion route is simply callous murder.

Dr Oginde holds a PhD in Organisational Leadership and is the Presiding Bishop of Christ is the Answer Ministries (CITAM)