A conservative leader prevented the world’s largest economies from using their clout to promote abortion, and perhaps also the LGBTQIA+ agenda, saying it is “profoundly wrong” to promote anti-family ideologies for political reasons.
At last week’s Group of Seven (G7) summit, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni successfully overcame pressure from President Joe Biden to include a promise for the nations to promote abortion-on-demand as part of “sexual and reproductive health.”
“I believe it is profoundly wrong, in difficult times like these, to campaign using a precious forum like the G7,” objected Meloni on Thursday evening.
Last year’s statement from the G7 summit — held in Hiroshima, Japan — stated: “We reaffirm our full commitment to achieving comprehensive SRHR [Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights] for all, including by addressing access to safe and legal abortion and post abortion care.” Thanks to Meloni’s objections, this year’s statement includes no reference to abortion whatever, although it does “reiterate our commitments in the Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué to universal access to adequate, affordable, and quality health services for women, including comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.”
The deletion came over the U.S. president’s objections. “When told of Ms. Meloni’s position, American officials say, President Biden pushed back, wanting an explicit reference to reproductive rights and at least a reaffirmation of support for abortion rights from last year’s communiqué,” reported The New York Times.
Since the G7 adopts statements by the consensus of all leaders, Meloni’s stand kept abortion out of this year’s document….
Bloomberg News also reported that Meloni removed a reference to “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” from the final statement desired by the U.S.
Although no international treaty protects either concept, global bureaucrats have made a concerted effort to include abortion and transgender ideology as part of “sexual and reproductive health.”
Meloni’s office downplayed both controversies. “I sincerely believe that the controversy [around abortion] was totally contrived, and, in fact, it is a controversy that did not exist in the summit, that did not exist in our discussions, precisely because there was nothing to argue about,” said Meloni.
Words and concepts from previous statements “usually … taken for granted are not repeated,” said Meloni.
Her office also denied the “news published by Bloomberg, according to which any reference to the rights of LGBT people could be removed from the final G7 communiqué,” calling it “devoid of any foundation.”
Meloni has made good on her 2022 campaign pledge to “give the right to make a different decision to women who think abortion is the only solution.”
Meloni also aims to boost Italy’s sagging birthrate to at least 500,000 babies a year. (Italy current has less than 400,000 live births annually, and its birthrate of 1.25 ranks among the lowest in the world.) She established a Ministry for Family and Birth to help Italians “rediscover the beauty of parenting.” She also passed legislation banning pornography from cell phones that belong to minors.
Meloni has denounced surrogacy, known widely as utero in affitto (“womb for rent”), as an “inhuman” act and introduced legislation to bar Italians from contracting surrogates overseas. “No one can convince me that it is an act of freedom to rent one’s womb,” she has said.
She rejects gender ideology, as well. “Being a man or a woman is rooted in who we are, and can’t be changed,” Meloni told an interviewer last March.
Meloni is riding high in Italy as her party, the Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), gained six additional seats in the elections for European Parliament earlier this month and largely displaced Matteo Salvini’s Lega as the dominant party on the Italian Right.
From the Washington Stand
Have you heard that Saudi Arabia did not renew its treaty with the United States that required the Saudis to accept only US dollars as payment for oil? The so-called petrodollar agreement is now over. The Saudis are now accepting payment for oil using other currencies.
This is partly the result of the US trying to impose LGBTQ ideology on non-Western nations. Muslim Saudis want none of the gay stuff. So the Saudis are now turning to Russia and China. Biden has been horrible for the US.
The decline of the US dollar as an international exchange currency and a global reserve currency is going to hurt the US economy. The dollar will become weaker. Inflation will increase.
Buy and hold bitcoin to protect yourself. De-dollarize your assets; the Saudis are.
Good for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She’s got the right ideas. The world needs more leaders like her. Bravo Italia!
Meloni is heaven- sent
ST Joan of Ark, pray for her!
Drewelow, that is St. Joan of Arc. “Arc” in French is a bow or arch not an ark (ship).
I gave Drewelow a thumbs up though because I agree with what he or she is trying to express, and we all make typos, especially me. (Laughter.) I hate it when my computer decides to put in the word for me when I am typing, especially when it is not the word I want, and it just did it. Sometimes when computers try to help, they end up making things harder.
Arc
Seeing the so called ‘LGBT…whatever’ agenda as anti-social is part and parcel to any conservative political platform. Job One is meaningfully curtailing abortion. The progressive agenda and abortion desperately depend on one another. End one, you end the other.
I don’t see how outlawing abortion would end gayness in the country.
I think the commenter, asdf, just meant– accurately– that to end the evil of abortion, child murder, would greatly weaken the progressives and Democrats, because feminism, and a woman’s so-called “right” to child murder, abortion, is a key theme in their evil party platform. Actually, the truth of all this evil goes back to the cause– disobedience to God, promiscuity, sexual sin. No respect for God-ordained, proper, decent Christian (one man, one woman only) Marriage and Family, with Children– and Christian Morality. As Our Blessed Mother stated to the Fatima children, Satan’s attacks on Marriage and the Family will be the final struggle. The Blessed Mother is holy and pure, and in today’s evil era, her purity, chastity, which is absolutely essential for a Christian, who is joined or married to Christ, starting with Baptism– is being ignorantly, severely attacked. Purity, chastity, in Christ, is extremely important for entrance to Heaven, in uniom with God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (one of the Beatitudes) The union of one man and one woman in Holy Matrimony, a Sacrament, blessed by God, resulting in Motherhood, Fatherhood, and their beloved Children, in a family– like the Holy Family– is ordained by God, from time immemorial. To ignorantly disobey God and to lead a “lifestyle” of selfish filth and sin in the gutter, destroys a person, body and soul– and can eventually cause Death to body and soul. It is a horrific, Satanic attack on the gift of Life-Giving, and Child-bearing, which comes from God. The Life-Giving gift to mankind is very sensitive and delicate. Being disobedient to God and selfish, filthy and siinful, trapped in the evil jaws of Satan– can result in Death, to body and soul.”Lifestyles” of selfishness, sin, self-gratification, concupiscence and filth, destroys all— it destroys Marriage and Family with Children, a whole society, and an entire civilization. Chastity is one of the holy and beautiful fruits of the Holy Spirit– when a Christian exercises the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit properly, it results in twelve beautiful and holy Fruits of the Spirit– the ɓeginning of Eternal Life, for your soul. The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord. The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit are: Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Generosity, Gentleness, faithfulness, Modesty, Self-Control, and Chastity. (Gal. 5:22-23) The holy Virtues, Gifts, and Fruits of the Holy Spirit result in the attainment of the beautiful, holy, eightfold state of the eight Beatitudes, described by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. (Matt. 5:3-10) Well, it is all in the Holy Bible and Catechism– everything we need to know, in seeking Christ’s promised Salvation.
The seven virtues I referred to in my comment of June 21st at 1:49pm, are the Four Cardinal Virtues– Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude, and the Three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is 100% correct, and is doing a lot of good in her country, and in the world. However, she needs to clean up her own life– no more “shacking up.” She should not try to falsely equate “shacking up” with Marriage and Family. It gives a poor example to Italy and to the world– and is not good either, for her poor daughter. I think Meloni should return to the Church, and to regular Catholic religious practice, with her daughter.
Pray for her. I think she is trying to do what is right. According to Wikipedia, she is from a broken home — her father left their family — and she has separated from her daughter’s father who propositioned another woman to do something really, really bad.. I do not want to go into detail, but one can read it on Wikipedia. I know Wikipedia is not to be always trustworthy, but it does seem fairly accurate on this. I feel sorry for her trying to live a decent life in all that mess.
The sordid details of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s immoral, irresponsible, ex-lover, were all over the news, when it happened. A tragedy, that Meloni’s poor daughter had to see all of that. Giorgia Meloni is a very intelligent, strong young woman (born in 1977, age 47) who made a sad mistake, and she is smart enough to know how to get going and fix her life. It seems that many politicians have problems with their personal lives, regardless of their background. Hope she will come back to the Church real soon– it would really help her, and help her poor, eight-year-old, “fatherless” daughter, too.
Pope Francis canoodled with Biden at the G7 instead of cleaning his clock about his anti-life stance.
“canoodled??”
Schmoozed. There you go.
There was a very unusual photo in the news, of Pres. Biden leaning over amd greeting the Pope, rubbing foreheads with him– it looked a little strange, and disrespectful. The Pope never says a word to Biden– nor to any Catholic leader– regarding disobedience to Church teaching on abortion, LGBT issues, nor anything else. What a shame. Think of all the “hit men” the Pope could stop, “hired for murder” of unborn children! Think of all the millions of unborn children’s lives he could save, by strongly advocating Catholic Marriage and Family, throughout the world, and demanding fidelity to teachings on Catholic Faith and Morality. And by threatening excommunication to prominent, unrepentant Catholic leaders who reject these important Church teachings, and promote the corruption, selfishness, sin, evils and filth of Satan and the Death Culture– which not only kill unborn children, and destroy people’s souls– but greatly weaken, disintegrate and destroy entire nations and civilizations.
Well, I guess Abp. Vigano is now in pretty bad trouble at the Vatican. The DDF, headed by Cdl. “Tucho” Fernandez, has now begun an
extrajudicial penal trial — and Abp. Vigano is “charged with the crime of schism.” Too bad that poor Vigano got himself into this mess. Where will he go, if he is laicized and excommunicated– where will he live, who will help him? He is age 83. Any pension left, or housing, food or medical benefits, for him? What about bad Marko Rupnik, the bad German bishops, etc. etc I think Cdl. “Tucho” should be accused of heresy and put on trial, too…they should make a big bonfire in the middle of St. Peter’s Square, and burn Cdl. “Tucho’s” dirty books of years ago– and burn his stupid “Fiducia Supplicans,” too, for starters…
The Semate Armed Services Committee is considering a couple of bills that would re-instate the automatic military draft of young men, aged 18-26. One of the bills also includes so-called “gender equalìty,” and the automatic military draft of young women, too. So-called “feminist” and “gender equality” liberal leftist garbage, has almost destroyed the truth, beauty, and dignity of Womanhood, made so beautifully and perfectly, by Almighty God. Womanhood, and Manhood, too– has been replaced in our society, by a bunch of immature, radical leftist, “forever adolescent” rebellious, misfit, militant activist freaks, and sick LGBT perverts.