The conference of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which officially started in Sokoto on July 16 ends today. It was a highly advertised conference attended by the crème de la crème of African monarchs and religious leaders including the Sultan of Sokoto and Archbishop John Onayeikan. Prior to the conference, UNPFA said viva voce that it was aimed at tackling high maternal mortality rate in Africa . But judging from the proceedings in Sokoto-the UNFPA's opening address, the lead discussions, euhemeristic and dodgy words hiding the word: abortion, and all that-, there is no doubt that the UNFPA simply used the conference to intensify its efforts to expand access to abortion and contraceptives around Africa. UNFPA was born for this and has faithfully lived up to this bidding. UNFPA even promotes abortion in refugee camps. UNFPA is behind China 's one-child policy which includes forced abortion. For years, America has withheld its contribution to UNFPA because it approves coerced abortion.
I am sure that many African dignitaries who sacrificed their precious time to travel to Sokoto are regretting it now. To avoid any rash judgment or sheer erroneous judgment, I have just crosschecked the Website to find out whether UNFPA has repented, but all I am seeing, regrettably, is the same old UNFPA, the largest international abortion-lobbying organization providing mega-dollar funds for abortion and contraceptives in well over 140 countries, Nigeria inclusive. I suggest you goggle: "UNFPA and Abortion", and your eyes will see wonders. I have called the home country of UPFPA to find out whether UNFPA's agenda in Africa has changed and they told me that it hasn't changed. I also called a friend at Capitol Hill and he confirms that the Sokoto conference is not different from the script of the G8 countries-imposing abortion on Africa .
So who is UNFPA trying to deceive? Does UNFPA think that we are fools or what? The average citizen knows that the solution to high maternal mortality in Africa begins with access to primary health care, not access to abortion. He/she also knows Nigerian women are not dying due to lack of access to abortion clinics: they are dying because of poverty, lack of access to skilled birth attendant etc. The women in my village are not dying because of abortion starvation: they die of malaria, cholera, measles, malnutrition, high blood pressure, cough, headache, severe bleeding after birth and general poor primary health care problems. Ditto for your village women. Abortion is not food that every woman must eat, or water that every woman must drink to stay alive. Therefore abortion starvation does not kill. Maternal death is defined by World Health Organization (WHO) as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy. Oftentimes these maternal deaths are exaggerated by UNFPA, UNICEF, Ipas, UNIFEM, UNDP and others just to a score a point in their campaigns for legalization of abortion. The numbers used in the ratio of maternal mortality are often estimates based on conjecture and extrapolation. Real numbers are rarely used. Bernard Nathanson, former New York abortionist, confesses in his book: Abortion America, that the number of women dying from illegal abortions in United States were falsified by abortionists. UNFPA is using the "numbers trick" that was used in United States in its abortion campaigns in Nigeria .
Legal abortion does not mean safe abortion and less maternal death. While we may agree that women sometimes die from illegal abortion, women also die from legal abortion. Surgical abortions, whether legal or illegal, can cause deadly complications including blood loss infections and perforation of the uterus. In fact chemical abortion methods such as RU486, which require two sets of pills and careful monitoring, can cause heavy bleeding. Poor medical conditions in our hospitals increase the likelihood of complications and death from every abortion. The poor conditions of the hospitals in Nigeria contribute to the death of many Nigerian women. Until these conditions are improved, Nigerian women will continue to die. Legalization of abortion will not stop Nigerian women from dying: our public hospitals will still lack the basic drugs and medical supplies and women patronizing those public hospitals will continue to die due to poor medical treatment. Most important, there is no cause-effect relationship between increase in maternal mortality and procurement of abortion. In other words, it is not because abortion is illegal in Nigeria that we are experiencing increase in maternal mortality. If Nigerian women are dying, the solution is not in legalization of abortion. The solution, according to Human Development index of the United Nations, is in the social, economic and political empowerment of women, elimination of cultural practices that degrade women, provision of better pension, gratuity and other welfare package for working mothers and allowing women access to primary health care at affordable cost.
The WHO reports that in the 1935-50s, maternal mortality in developed countries reduced because obstetric techniques were developed and general health care was improved. At that time abortion not even legal in most developed countries. The same thing must happen in Nigeria . Pregnant women in Nigeria must have access to good health care system. Those who are poor should be given real free medical treatment. Access to emergency care can prevent and treat obstetric fistula, a devastating condition caused by obstructed labour. In those days the missionaries were offering the people all these medical services, at times free of charge. Today the primary health care system has collapsed. Severe bleeding during delivery or after child birth contributes up to 44% of maternal deaths in Nigeria . But please take a look around you. When was the last time you saw a public ambulance for women in emergency situations? Yet many women who need this ambulance service die in droves daily in Nigeria . And here you have UNFPA prescribing abortion to Nigeria women.
It beats the imagination to learn that the UNFPA is anti-children. Executives of UNFPFA are supposed to be parents with children. Why is the United Nations agencies bent on imposing abortion on us when abortion has ruined Europe ? Europe is becoming extinct owing to abortion. There are scarcity babies in many European countries. The Asian countries are taking over Europe . Things used by babies in Europe like toys etc are now used by dogs and other pets because of scarcity of new babies. Opral Wilfrey, who would have been aborted by her mother, is now campaigning against child killers and molesters. Under a screaming headline, the Daily Mail (Tuesday, May 6, 2008) reported that the British Abortion Law was ruining the British people. The paper reports that with the high rate of 550 abortions per day, British MPs are scared that Britain would soon become extinct. Consequently the MPs were going to pass a bill in parliament to cut down the number of abortions per day in Britain . During her interview, Nadine Dorries, the sponsor of the bill, said: "I respect a woman's right to choose. But we are close to being the abortion capital of the world and it is time to adopt a more moderate commonsense approach to abortion. No one envisaged such a tally when abortion was legalized 40 years ago. There were only 86.000 abortions a year in the early 1970s. Abortion is now being used as a form of contraception"
Therefore we must save our country before it is destroyed. We must save the lives of our women and children before they are destroyed by foreigners. We must stop playing with fire. The soul of country is at stake. Look at South Africa . If we are not careful, a time might come when we can no longer send our schools because the schools would have become dungeons for corruption of kids. For example, your 10 year-old daughter going to school to acquire knowledge will likely be taught how to do abortion, all in the name of adolescent sexual reproductive right. This is the gospel according to UNFPA. This is what they call modernity or progress. This is United Nations' precious gift to Africa . This is where they are putting all our monies. Therefore African monarchs and religious leaders must muster the political will to reject all these useless offers from UNFPA and others. Nigerian government must not be so naïve to accept everything coming from the United Nations agencies as good. Nigerian women are no prostitutes. Nigerian women have their dignity. They deserve better life than the violence of abortion. Nigerian women deserve access to health that will save their lives and the lives of their children.
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