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By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
PERU, July 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Most of the major players in the protocol campaign are funded directly or indirectly by large American foundations with a “social change” agenda that includes abortion, homosexual rights, contraception, and “sexual health” services that facilitate extra-marital sexual behavior, such as medication for venereal diseases.
PROMSEX, which is probably the loudest and most aggressive of the organizations, is reportedly funded by the $30 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose founder, Bill Gates, has recently invested in the homosexual activist publishing company PlanetOut that displays hard-core homosexual pornography. The Gates Foundation has also donated over ten million dollars to the Latin American branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world’s number one provider and promoter of abortion and sexual libertinism, which is also heavily involved in the Peru protocol campaign.
Another massive American foundation that is providing significant funding for the Peruvian abortion lobby is the Ford Foundation. It supports groups such as the Institute for the Defense and Rights of Women (DEMUS), the radical feminist group Flora Tristan, the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM), and the Latin American Center for Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM). These groups work closely with one another and appear repeatedly at conferences and meetings to advocate an agenda of abortion and sexual permissiveness.
Pro-Abortion Forces Succeeding
Earlier this year, the investments of the international abortion lobby began to pay off.
Two hospitals, San Bartolomé and Belén de Trujillo, have implemented protocols for “therapeutic abortion” since March. Pro-abortion groups have hailed these victories, claiming that they apply to all hospitals in the country. On March 20th the Peru Medical College and the Peru College of Obstetricians held a closed-door meeting with groups such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Planned Parenthood of America, and Ipas (all of which are either American or are funded by American foundations), as well as the United Nations Population Fund. On June 7, the leadership of the Peru Medical College, lead by National Dean Dr. Amador Vargas Guerra, endorsed “therapeutic abortion” as a “right”. A day later the same organization sponsored the presentation of an IPPF book linking poverty in Peru to lack of abortion rights.
Susana Chávez, director of PROMSEX, notes the increasing success of the abortion lobby in Peru. “The group defending sexual and reproductive rights now has an accumulation of experience, a level of discourse in the media, that places us in the public agenda. We also have the experience of using the juridical system and having won. We have new allies. The medical community is debating these subjects. The Human Rights Coordinator is increasingly more interested in supporting us,” she remarked in a recent interview.
Use of Long-Tested U.S. “Hard Cases” Strategy Leading to More Abortions
The protocol campaign in Peru is driven by a long-tested strategy of the American abortion lobby: the use of “hard cases” to create an opening for more abortions. PROMSEX and DEMUS have assiduously publicized the case of a woman named Karen Llantoy, a young woman whose unborn child in 2001 was diagnosed as anencephalic (a congenital defect that inhibits the growth of the upper parts of the brain). Anencephalic children presumably do not have higher cognitive brain functions, and normally die shortly after birth.
Llantoy requested an abortion and was diagnosed with emotional stress from the pregnancy, according to advocates, but was not permitted to have the abortion because it was not necessary to protect her health. She eventually gave birth to the child, and it died several days later. Pro-abortion organizations appealed the case to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which ruled against Peru and ordered the government to compensate Llantoy in 2006.
In response to the Llantoy decision, the government of Peru agreed to create a “multisectoral” protocol for “therapeutic abortion”, which would allow women in similar situations to abort their children. However, pro-life forces in Peru, with strong participation by Catholic Church officials, managed to prevent the protocol from being implemented in 2006.
However, this year the Peruvian abortion lobby found another “hard case” to revive their protocol campaign. An unnamed thirteen year old girl reportedly was raped and tried to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of her house. While in the hospital, it was determined that she was pregnant. Her mother pushed to have the baby aborted, but doctors refused. Ultimately the girl suffered a miscarriage and the baby was lost.
Pro-abortion forces contend that the pregnancy delayed important surgery to repair the child’s injuries, which could have permanent consequences. In response, Health Minister Carlos Vallejos promised to create a protocol for such cases.
Pro-Abortion Groups Especially Targeting Catholic Church
The current campaign is part of a wider strategy by US and UN-backed organizations, in Peru and other countries, to undermine the influence of traditional religious values in favor of the “secular” value system of liberalism, what Pope John II and Pope Benedict XVI have called “the culture of death”. They include abortion on demand, the promotion of artificial birth control, and the promotion of special “rights” for homosexuals.
The organizations are specifically targeting the Catholic Church, which they see as their number one opponent in the battle to impose their values in Latin America, with publications that call for a “separation of churches and state” in the name of “democracy”.