Obama and Ondimba: An Uneasy Meeting

  President Obama of the USA has taken some flak for meeting with President Ondimba of Gabon this week.  I can imagine that there would have been some tension and embarrassment in the room, but it would not have been on Ondimba’s side.

President Ondimba of Gabon

  Gabon is a majority Catholic country.  President Ondimba converted to Islam with the rest of the family when his father, then-President Omar Bongo, converted in 1973.  However, the country still promotes the Culture of Life, since this is foundational to both the Catholic faith and Islam.  As a consequence, both contraception and abortion are illegal.

  The contradiction one sees is that President Obama, who claims to be Christian (while a few conspiracy theorists suspect he is Muslim), presides over and promotes a Culture of Death in America.  Since he took office in January 2009, President Obama has been responsible for the killing of over 2.8 million babies in the US.  This amounts to almost twice the population of Gabon – including a disproportionate number of African-Americans, some of whom are descendants of the Fang tribe, which makes up about a third of Gabon’s population.

  Thus I can understand why President Obama would only allow still-photographers into the meeting.  He didn’t want anyone recording President Ondimba asking, “What are you doing to my people?”

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  Gabon is a West African country, with an area about the same as New Zealand (or the state of Colorado) and a population of 1.5 million.

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NZ Government Policy Inconsistency #237

Consider two families: one has a two-year old girl with Down Syndrome, and the mother is pregnant, the other has a normal two-year old and the mother is also pregnant. The mothers both have antenatal screening tests. The first mother is expecting a normal child; the second mother is told that her child has Down Syndrome.

It is typical in New Zealand for the mother in the second case to be offered an abortion by their doctor or midwife.  (Although New Zealand law does not permit abortion on demand, the High Court has found that the statistics on abortion approvals indicate that that is what we have in practice.)

However, in the first family, we don’t allow the mother to kill her child with Down Syndrome and keep the normal one that she is carrying in her womb.

Why the difference?

The National Screening Programme which identifies unborn babies with Down syndrome is promoted by the Government as the “Quality Improvement Programme”.  If the Government is really serious about “improving the quality” of the New Zealand population by getting rid of people with Down Syndrome, why is it restricting the programme to the unborn?  Is Health Minister Tony Ryall too squeamish to send the men in white coats round to the IHC?  No; he just realises that New Zealanders are not ready (yet) for the culling of 2-year olds, 22-year olds, or 42-year olds.  But unborn children? No problem!  That doesn’t create even the smallest blip on the media radar.

"When do we get our 2 minutes silence?"

   Prime Minister John Key has asked all New Zealanders to observe 2 minutes silence this Tuesday at 12.51pm, to show respect for the dead and solidarity with the living after the Christchurch earthquake last week.

Hand of baby, killed at 14 weeks old, by suction abortion.

   Much has been said and written about the dignity and value of human lives relative to material things over the past week.  And much (well-deserved) praise has been heaped on medical staff caring for the injured.  The death toll stands at 148.

   Yet just think, every month since the last big quake in Canterbury in September and now, well over 150 Cantabrians have been killed by the same professional medical staff – in abortions.

   Where was the national outpouring of concern then?  Where were the TV crews?  What did Prime Minister John Key have to say then?  Why was Mayor Bob Parker not talking about how irreplaceable human lives are then?  Why didn't we hold our breaths with tears in our eyes when all those children were dragged dead or dying from the safety of their mother's wombs?  What was said about their dignity and value to the country?

   It has been said that 22 February 2011 was New Zealand’s darkest hour.  However, nothing can really beat 16 December 1977, the date that the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 was given royal assent and became law, ushering in the holocaust of abortion that has killed over 400,000 New Zealanders since then.

   I reckon that must be worth at least two minutes silence one day.

   Failing that, at least on Tuesday, let us stop at 12.51 pm and remember ALL the tragic deaths in Christchurch over the last six months - including the dear departed aborted children.

   And let us pledge to restore not just Christchurch, but a culture of respect for all human life in Canterbury and New Zealand.

Christchurch to Remain New Zealand’s “Abortion City”

   When visitors to the country ask how many children have been killed in New Zealand by abortion since the passing of the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act in 1977, it is convenient to point to some town or city that has about that number of people in it, so that they can visualise the size of the holocaust that has gone on.

Christchurch viewed from the Port Hills (Wikipedia)

  Since 2008, Christchurch has had that macabre distinction, after taking over from Manukau City.

   By the end of 2010, Christchurch would have been expected to pass the mantle to Auckland.  However, with advent of the Super City, the old Auckland, of some 440,000 people, will no longer be a separate entity.  So Christchurch will be kept on as the poster city for the abortion industry.  Interested persons will need to imagine a group of children somewhere between the size of Christchurch City (375,000) and the whole of the Canterbury Region (540,000) being slaughtered.

   The current cumulative death toll is over 400,000, and rising steadily.

Other Countries

   Other countries have their “abortion cities” as well, of course.  In Australia, Brisbane is the abortion city, having taken over from Perth in 2004.  So, when you next fly over Brisbane (population 2.0 million) when going to the Gold Coast, spare a thought for the 2.1 million Australian babies killed since 1970 (Australian state abortion laws began to be liberalised from 1969).

   As for the USA, it only took six years after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 for the cumulative number of abortions in the USA to exceed the population of the country’s largest city.  By the end of 1979, over 8 million babies had been killed by abortion, whereas the population of New York City was about 7.1 million (having declined from 7.9 million in 1969).