Barack Obama's reinstates funding for UNFPA

It seems that we have some people that do not understand why Barack Obama reinstated assistance for the UNFPA. People, you have an Internet connection, yet you don't do your homework before condemning our presidents decision to refund UNFPA.
Many people only look at one aspect of the program, abortion. Abortion, is only a small part of what UNFPA does for woman/children and is only used as a last resort to saving the life of the mother.

UNFPA also educates people on the use of contraceptives in order to avoid unwanted pregnancies. Without UNFPA many woman would die in childbirth from improper birthing techniques/conditions. Mothers give birth in mud/bamboo huts in dirty conditions by a midwife who has no chance of saving either the baby or mother should something bad happen. By having a UNFPA clinic close by, many are saved and go on to productive lives.

Diseases such as Aids, Malaria, Measles, and many other life threatening diseases are also treated free of charge by the UNFPA.

UNFPA inoculates small children against all major diseases, which insures them a greater chance for survival, better health and a better life.

Woman receive information on contraceptive measures, so they will not continue to have babies that they cannot support.

Many mothers in third world countries are teenagers and some are even younger!

Teenagers receive needed counseling from the UNFPA so they don't become pregnant. Many already know or have a teenage friend who already has a baby, only to grow up in poverty and ill health without the UNFPA!

The church is one of the main "obstacles" standing in the way of teaching women/teenagers about the use contraceptives.

My own mother died in childbirth with me at only 32 years of age. After her passing my father ran back to his mother in Canada, leaving us to fend for ourselves. We all wound up being raised by a single person, not a family. My sister was raped at 13 years old, my other sister contracted TB and spent her entire teenage years in a hospital. I won't tell you what happened to me, but it was also very bad.
Why am I telling you this? Because had my mother had better care such as the UNFPA provides she would not have died. If anyone should have died, it should have been me. Abortion was illegal at the time of my birth in the USA. With her passing it caused the entire famy to break apart and it was the beginning of the end of our family.
You have to ask yourself this question. If your mother/wife was laying there suffering like my mother was and the doctors told you that without an abortion she would surely die, what would you choose to do? Tough question isn't it? My mother was left to die a miserable slow death, she blead to death one hour after I was born and held me in her arms for most of that hour.
You could find yourself in that situation someday too, but remember, if mother dies, everyone looses like our family did, and the remainder of the family will suffer a life long fate. Our family still suffers today, and we still have to talk out our problems every time we meet.
You probably have a "normal" family and have never had to deal with a situation like what I just described, so you don't know what one key death can do to a family, but just loose that person in your life and see what happens to you..it isn't a very pretty picture!

More than 180 developing countries around the world support the UNFPA and Obama knew how important keeping these clinics open was. Unlike George Bush and Ronald Reagan who only looked at the UNFPA with tunnel vision, there was much more to loose by not funding these clinics. Aids is spreading worldwide and in coming years a pandemic is inevitable. These clinics stand as a first line of defense against the deaths of millions of people when a pandemic occurs. They must be maintained.

Please keep an open mind as you watch the video below on what UNFPA is doing in the Philippines. Maybe after learning the "truth" about Baracks Obamas decision to reinstate funding to the UNFPA, you'll begin to understand how little abortion plays a part, and how important funding the UNFPA is to all of us.

The UNFPA is all about saving and enriching the lives of the less fortunate people of the world. Education is the key to ending poverty and the promotion of good health.

Obama 2/28/09 "I work for the American people!

The Scharf family totally supports our presidents decision to refund the UNFPA.