The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a 
prominent US-based public interest group litigating and lobbying for pro-abortion policies world-wide, has released its annual report for 2007. The reported CRR budget confirms that large US foundations continue their heavy financial support for radical social policies not only in the US, but all over the world.
The report shows that close to fifty percent of CRR’s $14 million budget is financed by more than forty American foundations. The Hewlett and Packard foundations lead the way. Other prominent donors include Ford and MacArthur foundations as well as George Soros’ Open Society Institute. CRR is also supported financially by the UN Population Fund, which claims to take a neutral position on abortion.
The report highlights CRR campaigns in six foreign countries and the US, campaigns which have focused predominantly on promoting the pro-abortion interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), fighting against sexual abstinence education programs, legalizing abortion, and promoting contraception. The report also lists CRR’s involvement in legal challenges to overturn pro-life laws in seventeen foreign countries.
The case studies included in the report illustrate the strategy CRR uses in promoting its agenda. CRR’s tactic is to present its cases before UN treaty monitoring bodies to elicit pro-abortion treaty interpretations from them. Although non-binding, CRR then uses these interpretations in its friend-of-the-court briefs submitted to domestic courts, or in local public media campaigns. CRR also partners with local NGOs to help CRR in its efforts.
In 2007, this tactic was used in Brazil when CRR presented a case before the CEDAW committee accusing Brazil of not fulfilling its treaty obligations by supposedly not providing appropriate emergency obstetric care. According to a CRR briefing at last year’s Women Deliver conference, CRR’s strategy for the next several years will be trying to get a national court to rule that maternal health is a human right that already exists somewhere in international law and that legal abortion is required to fulfill that right. They are testing this approach in a case they recently brought against Brazil. In Europe, CRR brought a case against the Croatian government before the European Committee of Social Rights, which is a treaty body of the Council of Europe - a regional human rights organization. CRR claims that Croatia’s use of TeenStar - an abstinence education program developed in the US - promotes discrimination and spreads false information among teenagers. CRR also wrote two friend-of-the-court briefs to support a pro-abortion challenge in Slovakian and Nicaraguan Supreme Courts. CRR succeeded in defending abortion law in Slovakia, while other developments are pending.
The report reveals that CRR has spent US foundations’ money abroad to develop and test its controversial litigation techniques to then try them at home. CRR is about to sponsor a Visiting Scholar and a Future Scholar Fellowship programs to teach law school professors and their students how to apply CRR’s “successful legal advocacy strategies…in the U.S.” The CRR report also announced its “Federal Policy Agenda” that describes these strategies and how they can be applied in the American legal context.
In 2007, CRR experts testified against the US before the UN treaty body which monitors compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). CRR elicited a ruling condemning the US for not guaranteeing equal access to reproductive healthcare. CRR claims that “these findings will be an invaluable tool as we introduce our human rights approach into our U.S. work.”
August 18th, 2008 at 5:09 am
The way that racial minorities are aborted at many times the rate of whites is one of the most vile forms of racial discrimination extant. But don’t expect the CERD committees to hear lots of testimony about that.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Ah, yes. George Soros. If ever life imitated art here we have an obscenely wealthy individual (net worth in the $9B range)obsessed with controling the world, not by controling its gold reserves (Ian Fleming’s fictional villian Goldfinger) but the lives of its very inhabitants, from conception to unnatural death. Here we see his sinister attempts at extreme population control (especially of poorer countries) through his Open Society Institute and other organizations his bottomless fortune finances.
On the other end of the spectrum Soros has created something called the “Project on Death,” a thinly veiled effort at promoting the wider acceptancd of euthanasia as an answer to all those disabled and sick people he sees as “useless eaters,” occupying hospital beds when they should be DEAD, using up valuable resources that the healthy segment of society would put to better use. If he were more candid he could have called his end-of-life program “Project Death” because (to quote a famous line from a Bond movie villian “I don’t want to hurt [them], I want to KILL [them].”
Arkanabar, it is no accident that the non-Northern European ethnic and racial groups have been targeted for such programs. Soros is one of a large group of individuals and institutions (foundations, UNFP, etc.) whose aim has long been reducing the teeming populations of Africa, South Asia and Latin America down to near extinction levels. These men and women are the successors to the monied elite of a century ago who believed the “science” of eugenics was the answer to the world’s troubles. Cull out the inferior (people of color or lesser ethnic stock) and replace them with people of more Nordic background.
The new George Soros Theme song (with apologies to John Barry the composer)to the tune of “Goldfinger”:
George Soros
He’s the man
The man with Grim Reaper’s touch
A spider’s touch
Such a cold finger
Beckons you
To enter his web of sin
But don’t go in
Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a pregnant girl
Knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death
From Mr George Soros…
By the way, Soros isn’t satisfied with funding organizations to do his evil bidding. He has his eyes on the White House, too. Oh no. Not so HE can get himself elected. Much better to finance and mentor a happy-faced sock-puppet, one he knows he can control and manipulate from the shadows. Financier J.P. Morgan understood that principal very well. Is it any surprise that Soros’ stooge is none other than NARAL poster-child Barack Obama?