Re: International Year of the Youth/ World Youth Conference

Dear Ambassador John McNee:

            On August 19, 2010 the United Nations officially launched the International Year of the Youth. The stated purpose for this initiative is to advance “peace, freedom, progress and solidarity towards the promotion of youth development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.” 

            These goals are very ambitious: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality rates, improve maternal health care, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and establish a global partnership for development. But one needs to look beyond the formal jargon to discover the organization’s central goal: indoctrinate the youth in accepting a contraceptive view of sexuality, of procreation and of life.

World Youth Conference

            A World Youth Conference took place in Mexico City from August 24^th-27^th. The overall purpose for this meeting was to “identify priorities of action of youth to be dealt with on the international development agenda beyond the millennium goals.” These words are misleading since the UN policy has been to focus primarily on “maternal health” which is referred to as “contraceptive prevalence rates” and the needs for “family planning.” But there will be no process for outlining priorities because this has already been done. Underneath the quoted euphemisms the real meaning is this: to get young people to accept abortion and the use of contraceptives as normal human activities with no morality attached to them. Why don’t the organizers tell the young participants the truth? Why don’t they communicate their aims in clear language so the youth will understand? They can’t, because the UN is being duplicitous with its rhetoric; it masks its hidden and destructive secularist agenda in order to corrupt the world’s youth.

Wrongview of maternal health

            Why are we letting young Canadians be influenced by this imported utilitarian view of the human person?  Mr. Ambassador, “maternal health” is not abortion because there is nothing healthy about an abortion if you’re the baby being killed;  “family planning” cannot be reduced to the use of contraceptives to avoid pregnancy, and “contraceptive prevalence rates” are not better because the per capita utilization rates of contraceptives are higher. Canada, should be helping to export a culture of life, open to children and family; Canada can do much better than help pharmaceutical companies sell their contraceptive products to increase shareholder profits.  And as the world adopts this social policy, it will come at a high human cost: young people all over the globe lose hope and trust in their future and with the adult world.

Thoraya Obaid

            At the UN launch, Thoraya Obaid, the head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) had this to say: “We all agree that health is a human right and an integral part of youth development. ...Investments in health care, including universal access to evidence-based sexual and reproductive health programmes are crucial to prevent unwanted pregnancies, maternal mortality, sexual transmitted infections and other threats to young people’s health.” She continued, “The United Nations Population Fund and other interested United Nations organizations are to be encouraged to continue assigning high priority to promoting adolescent health.”

            By now you know the code words: “sexual and reproductive health”, “maternal mortality” and “adolescent health” are all about promoting abortion, contraception and avoiding pregnancies. These are the sounds words make when a culture openly promotes death and the pleasures of self- gratification. 

Lou Iacobelli can be reached at louiac@hotmail.com