Biden funds for Phl abortion?
to be challenged in the Supreme Court.
A Supreme Court decision has limited the access to modern contraceptives, which the International Network for Economic,
Social & Cultural
Rights Committee (ESCR-Net) objected to. Four out of five Philippine abortions are due to poverty.
Padilla is a member of ESCR-Net, a United Nations affiliate, together with another Filipino abortion activist, Anita B. Visbal. The ESCR-Net can easily facilitate funding for Philippine abortion with its connections with pro-abortion advocates in the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. ESCR-Net also has vast global connections “across 75 countries, over 280 members — grassroots groups, social movements, NGO, academic centers and advocates.”
Padilla was reported in social media to have ties with a US pro-abortion group, which is seen to be one of the first recipients from the Biden administration.
US President Joseph R. Biden, who is portrayed in media as a devout Catholic, expressed his promise to continue the abortion funds as soon as he assumed office. Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumannn, a member of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a February interview with Catholic World Report, challenged Biden to clarify his stand and “acknowledge that his support for abortion contradicts his Catholic faith (Daily Caller News Foundations, 19 February 2021).”
Due to misleading reports that Pope Francis has softened on the abortion issue, then President Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines declared that “abortion remains a ‘grave’ offense against the moral law (PDI, 4 September 2015).”
The Philippines is viewed by Pope Francis and the Vatican as the jumping point for Asian evangelization, being the only Christian nation in Asia (90 percent Catholic). Filipinos here and abroad are regarded as extremely devout Catholics and anti-abortionists. However, extreme poverty and the pandemic may weaken the resolve against abortion, especially with US abortion funds that may pour in sooner than we think, which would proliferate abortion clinics, weaken hospital policies against abortion, fund NGO pro-abortion campaigns working with the grassroots, the most susceptible to economic pressures, and fund UN-sponsored PR blitz.
The “war” between pro- and anti-abortionists is seen to intensify soon at all social levels, especially with funds coming in. The growth of pro- and anti-abortion advocacies is equally growing at a fast rate toward a confrontation.
The Catholic Church is bracing for a confrontation with a relatively pro-abortion-prone government, banking on “devotion” to neutralize “poverty funds.” The Philippines is one of the last remaining anti-abortion nations in the world. And the UN and the US with their vast funds have yet to make a dent on Filipino devotion.
Theologians see a diametrical relationship between abortion-Satanism and the spread of the pandemic. The Church believes the Lord and the Blessed Virgin will prevail, and is asking the faithful to be headstrong, vigilant and prayerful in this era of tribulation.
“The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act implicitly allows abortion, but the constitutionality of abortion has yet to be challenged in the Supreme Court.