“Women don’t just bear life but transmit to us the ability to see otherwise, they see things differently…” Pope Francis
Tuesday, March 8, the world will observe International Women’s Day which, as the United Nations (UN) states “is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.”
In September 2015, the world adopted a new sustainable development agenda which “features 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that aim to end poverty, combat inequalities and promote prosperity while protecting the environment by 2030… The new agenda is an action plan for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. It will foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies and require the participation of all countries, stakeholders and people.
“The ambitious agenda seeks to end poverty by 2030 and promote shared economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection for all countries.” There is “a stand-alone goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (SDG 5) as well as gender-sensitive targets in other goals” (www.unwomen.org).
The Holy See continues to stress that in international law the only binding definition of ‘gender’ is in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which states: “Gender refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. The term ‘gender’ does not indicate any meaning different from the above.”
Gender is not socially constructed. The Holy See warns that “this agenda to re-define ‘gender’ calls into question the very foundation of the human rights system”.
The Rome Statute of the ICC was signed in 1999 and came into force in T&T in July 2002. This definition was also contained in the document produced at the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, which took place in Durban, South Africa in 2001.
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This issue was discussed by 100 or so Catholic women, myself included, in Rome at a three-day International Conference in May 2015 organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in cooperation with the World Union of Women’s Catholic Organisations and the World Women’s Alliance for Life and Family.
The theme was: Women and the post-2015 development agenda: the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our deliberations were conveyed to Pope Francis to inform the Church’s response to the draft document that was under consideration globally at that time. There are aspects of the agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that are not in keeping with our Church’s teaching. The Holy See had submitted written reservations on the SDGs to the UN highlighting concerns about the language of “sexual and reproductive health”.
Pete Baklinski reported in LifeSiteNews on August 13, 2015, that the Holy See’s permanent observer to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, “has criticised the agreed-upon SDGs for containing what he says is an implicit push for abortion using the language of ‘reproductive rights,’ a move that he says is contrary to authentic human development”.
“The overall objective of the SDGs is the eradication of inequalities and poverty by 2030, but by including goals affirming abortion as an ‘achievement, a right to be guaranteed to all,’ Archbishop Tomasi says it’s as if the UN thinks that by ‘eliminating people there would be fewer problems.’
“He criticised the UN and other international agencies for insisting that with abortion, that is, with ‘reproductive health,’ you can help eliminate underdevelopment and allow women to ‘fully express their freedom.’ He called this an example of a ‘markedly individualistic ethic’ that is contrary to a truly human development…
“For the Church people matter, people with their rights, for the development of the whole society, under the banner of the concept of the common good – based on an idea of transcendence – [an idea] that individualism denies.”
As Joseph Meaney, Human Life International, says: “Billions upon billions of government issued funds will be poured into implementing the SDGs. In fact, all international non-government organisations (NGOs) are lobbying for these funds, including the population control advocates.”
During this Holy Year of Mercy, let us pray and work for the promotion of the Family and the right to life from the moment of conception to natural death. And let us reaffirm our commitment to promote the feminine genius as “women imbued with a spirit of the gospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling” (closing message of the 2ndVatican Council).
