A new petition drive is underway to stop the UN from using the Zika virus as an excuse to push for greater access to abortion in countries affected by the virus.
LifeSiteNews.com is reporting on the new petition drive which is demanding that the UN focus its attention and resources on searching for a cure and eradicating the source of the epidemic rather than targeting its victims.
“I demand that you immediately stop using the Zika virus as an opportunity to push abortion in Latin American countries, and apologize to these countries for suggesting that its youngest citizens should be eradicated if they have the virus,” the petition reads. “I also respectfully ask and that you focus your efforts on eradicating the virus, not the victim.”
As Latinos Health reports, UN officials are now asking countries in mostly Roman Catholic Latin America to reconsider their abortion bans and modify laws that will allow women to have access to birth control and abortion in order to avoid having children who could be disabled by the virus which is transmitted by mosquito.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO), which is also calling for abortion, has admitted that the impact of the Zika virus is generally very mild.
“It causes mild fever and rash. Other symptoms include muscle pain, joint pain, headache, pain behind the eyes and conjunctivitis. Zika virus disease is usually mild, with symptoms lasting only a few days,” the WHO website states.
The furor is over a possible link between the virus and a rise in microcephaly, a rare neurological condition in which an infant’s head is significantly smaller than normal size.
This link has not yet been made, however, which is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling for additional studies to “further characterize the relationship” between Zika and birth defects.
“More studies are planned to learn more about the risks of Zika virus infection during pregnancy,” the CDC reports.
But these facts aren’t stopping abortion activists from a full-throttle push to make abortion available on demand wherever the virus is appearing.
As of today, Zika transmissions are taking place in 30 countries including the South American countries of Brazil, El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua.
In these predominantly Catholic nations, abortion is either outlawed completely or allowed only under certain conditions such as to save a mother’s life. This has led to a call for a change in abortion laws.
“Laws and policies that restrict her access to these services must be urgently reviewed in line with human rights obligations in order to ensure the right to health for all in practice,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a statement.
UN spokesperson, Cecile Pouilly, added: “That’s why we are asking those governments to go back and change those laws because how can they ask these women not to become pregnant? But also not offer them first information that is available but also the possibility to stop their pregnancies if they wish so.”
The National Conference of Bishops in Brazil, the country hardest hit by Zika thus far, has said that the disease is “no justification whatsoever to promote abortion”.
As LifeSite reports, “In a sane world, it’s the virus that should be targeted for destruction, not a person infected by it. But in our insane world of today, that’s exactly what United Nations (UN) and other groups are doing – going after the victim, instead of the disease.”
As a result, they have started a petition drive with the hopes of raising 25,000 signatures from persons who are against using the confusion surrounding the Zika virus as a means to promote abortion.
“Killing babies by abortion won’t help contain the virus. But killing mosquitos will,” LifeSite writes.
“If we can’t get that right, than we don’t stand a chance to get anything right in the fight against this virus.”
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