Planned Parenthood Fails to Promote Abortion at Recent Summit of the Americas

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 20, 2009

Port of Spain, Trinidad (LifeNews.com) -- International pro-abortion advocates from Planned Parenthood appear to have been unable to promote abortion at the recent Summit of the Americas meeting. Leading pro-life advocates were concerned they would team up with Obama officials to promote abortion using coded phrases.

Marie Smith, the director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues, previously told LifeNews.com that International Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations might insert pro-abortion language into the Summit's Declaration of Commitment.

Abortion advocates regularly work to get phrases like "reproductive health" and "reproductive rights" into UN and international documents and then later construe those terms as including abortion.

The final declaration of the Summit includes some changes but not the “sexual and reproductive rights and health” terms desired by abortion advocates. the rest