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When you 'force' another to participate in evil then it sure seems like the mark of the beast is rampant on the earth. Indirectly tax payers will then be funding abortions. What does your religious organization say about this?

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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt
Subject:   European Union Votes to Force Member Nations to Fund Abortion
Source:   Euro-Fam; February 13, 2003

European Union Votes to Force Member Nations to Fund Abortion

Strasborug -- The European Parliament voted today to adopt the Sandaeck
report on development aid which compels all European Union nations to fund
abortions in developing countries. Euro-fam, a pro-life group focused on
the EU, reports that the Members of the European Parliament rejected
(254-180) a pro-life amendment seeking to prevent abortion financing.

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in the UK reacted
with disappointment and concern. John Smeaton, SPUC's national director,
explained: "The Sandbk report constitutes the blueprint for a new
regulation to determine EU overseas aid policy over the next five years.
It obliges the EU to provide financial assistance to promote 'the
recognition of reproductive and sexual health and rights ... including ...
universal access to a comprehensive range of safe and reliable
reproductive and sexual health care and services'. The World Health
Organization defines 'reproductive healthcare services' as including
abortion.

"This means that the EU will fund abortions, and the main author of the
report, Danish MEP Ulla Sandbk, admitted as much when she told Ireland's
Radio Kerry on 19 November 2002 that the new regulation would mean that
abortions would be legally funded by the EU.

"EU regulations take precedence over the laws of member states, so all EU
countries will now be obliged to fund abortions overseas through their EU
contributions. This includes Ireland, which has a pro-life constitution,
as well as the pro-life accession countries such as Malta and Poland when
they become full EU members."

Mr Smeaton concluded: "The EU is becoming one of the foremost promoters of
a pro-abortion culture around the world. Today's tragic vote demonstrated
a disrespect for the unborn and disregard for the rights of individual
nation states within Europe with pro-life laws".

The EU and UN policies contrast starkly with the U.S. Mexico City policy
which prohibits any U.S. government funding for aid programs that provide
abortion services.

Beast the Signs

My religious organization says I am to obey the law. The law says I must pay taxes regardless of where that money is going. I think this is a good example of why one should be careful of the associations one chooses to be members of or friends one chooses to have.

Here is Ireland, a country where you can't even get a divorce, now publicly funding abortions through the European Union. When they joined the EU, I am sure all they saw was the good they had to gain by the collective force of all the European nations joining as one. What they may have failed to recognize was the freedom of sovereignity they were giving up by choosing this collective force. You have to take the good with the bad. So, the question would be if the good outweighs the bad. Only the countries involved can make that decision.