Pat Buckley's European Life Network blog is a good source for news about Europe from a pro-life perpective. He has an excellent article on World Population Day in which, as he points out, the emphasis is on depopulation "and consists of a cynical exercise in scare-mongering."
The other day, he linked a speech made in Lisbon by Kathy Sinnott, MEP for Ireland South explaining why Ireland voted "No" to the Lisbon Treaty. She spoke of the uneasiness in Ireland at seeing its democracy eroded, and of the failure of European Parliament, Council and Commission to uphold the sanctity of human life, and voices calling for a "right" to abortion and euthanasia.
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Crazy Europe! The latest project of the Spanish Left is animal liberation. With the support of the ruling Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE), Spain will become the first country in the world to extend some human rights to apes. From now on, the great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees and orang-utans – will enjoy the right to life, the right to the protection of individual liberty, and the right to prohibition of torture (more rights than many humans humans can currently count on in this world - shocking!!!).
“This is a historic moment in the struggle for animal rights,” Pedro Pozas, the Spanish director of the Great Apes Project, told the London Times. “It will doubtless be remembered as a key moment in the defence of our evolutionary comrades.”
Thanks to MercatorNet for this news. Completely barmy and scandalous waste of money is what I say. Spaniards should be careful who they vote for next election time - but that goes for all of us. Be vigilant in your choice of MP - only vote for Pro-Life Politicians (Human LIFE - that is!)
More lunacy from Europe:
The solution to global warming, says a UK charity, is to implement laws that would result in people having fewer children.
Governments should put slow pressure on people to limit their offspring to one or two children to save social and environmental resources.
"There is no unlimited right to have children," said the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), the group known to be one of the most militantly anti-life organisations in the world. There is a limit, the Trust said, "on the number of children to which people are 'entitled'."
No Such thing as a Right to Have Babies: Population Trust
The solution to global warming is to implement laws that would result in people having fewer children
By Hilary White
LONDON, July 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "A voluntary population policy should be incorporated into law," the group said.
Governments, indicated the organization, should implement a "society-wide process of agreement, internalisation and normalisation" to the idea of small families and use a series of "gentle nudges" rather than "hard shoves," to get people to conform to the new childless paradigm. But hey, hold on I say, have we not had this 'society-wide' process or internalisation and normalisation already for the past forty years - look aound you Europe, where are all your children - either contracepted out or killed through abortion. The 'media driven normalisation' over the lats forty years or so of the one or two child family has been hugely successful in my lifetime. The sad fact is that Europe is dying, and these lunatics are concerned that having more children ultimately causes 'global warming'.
All of this, they said, is to ensure that everyone has equal access to wilderness areas. "Our moral and legal rights to access wilderness and natural biological diversity (including other species), enjoy its benefits, and perhaps even see it restored, are at odds with, and arguably outweigh, the private right to have an unlimited number of children."
The Trust said that "human rights theory, legal precedent and national and international practice do not" support the UN's reassertion of its 1968 declaration that individuals "have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of their children."
This year, the slogan by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), one of the world's largest promoters of abortion for World Population Day, July 11, was "Family Planning: It's a right. Let's make it real!"
But the OPT responded saying that there is really only a "far more limited right to 'found a family'."
The group quotes a paper by a US academic and animal rights activist, Carter Dillard, who called the notion that people have a natural right to have as many children as they want, "self-contradictory and illogical."
"Only the decision not to have children is a genuinely private act," Dillard wrote, whereas the decision to procreate affects the lives of others and limits the freedom of descendants who must then compete for resources. True freedom, the paper says, is the freedom not to be bothered by the existence of other people. "As numbers increase, life becomes more complex," Dillard wrote, and "the scope of law expands and regulation brings a contraction of rights." What kind of socio-phobe and nut-case is this??????
To support his assertion, Dillard cites the example of China, where the state has "traditionally... perceived women's reproductive function as a legitimate matter of state control." God Help us!
But such open calls for the state to coerce citizens to have fewer children is gaining critics.
Dominic Lawson, writing today for the Independent, said, "The population control freaks have also been skillful in adopting the fashionable political concerns of the day to their cause." He called the OPT's use of environmentalist slogans on "carbon footprints," "yet another illustration of the way these people mould their agenda to whatever is the most fashionable political concern of the day."
Brendan O'Neill went even further in the Guardian, saying that the new environmentalist movement is a threat to human freedom and democracy.
"It seems to me," O'Neill wrote, "that green thinking - with its shrill intolerance of dissenting views, its deep distaste for free movement and free choice, and its view of individuals, not as history-makers, but as filthy polluters - poses a more profound threat to liberty even than the government's paranoid anti-terrorist agenda."
In 2003, the OPT drew the ire even of the far left British media establishment after its conference at Oxford, at which the group suggested that the solution to Britain's environmental problems is to reduce the population to 30 million, half of the country's current number. We'd then have to import another 30 million workers to run the country's infrastructure - ye gods, these people should go to some other planet.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Government Must Institute Two-Child Policy says Leading UK Population Control Group
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jul/07071201.html
Environmentalist Extremists Call Humanity "Virus", a "Cancer", Large Families Guilty of "Eco-Crime" - This article is quite chilling - warning - not for the faint-hearted.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07050812.html
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