{"id":312423,"date":"2024-05-16T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312423"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:43:11","slug":"baby-olivia-un-speech-international-day-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-olivia-un-speech-international-day-families\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Baby Olivia’ goes to the UN, with impassioned speech celebrating International Day of Families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action’s news correspondent Christina Bennett spoke at the United Nations this week at the UN’s celebration of the International Day of Families, hosted by the Group of Friends of the Family, and organized by the Permanent Mission of Belarus to the United Nations and by The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The theme of the event, which featured various speakers, focused on <\/span>the family and the future of humanity. A memo featuring background information about the event noted:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no accident that family is recognized in the Universal Declaration of <\/span>Human Rights as \u201cthe natural and fundamental group unit of society\u201d and <\/span>\u201centitled to protection by society and the State.\u201d <\/span>Societies where the family <\/span>is weakened and undermined have no future.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

… [T]o <\/span>achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [we] must focus on the <\/span>family because of its essential function as primary educator, economic <\/span>driver, and social safety net….<\/span><\/p>\n

The Summit for the Future must recognize the family\u2019s role in sustainable <\/span>development in all its dimensions, social, economic and environmental. And <\/span>it must include protection of the family as a cross-cutting issue. States must <\/span>provide a legal and policy environment that promotes family formation, <\/span>stability, and social respect and support. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Protection of the family is essential <\/span>to peace and security. It is essential to development. The family is central to <\/span>social stability and good governance.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Bennett’s own story \u2014 she was “scheduled to be aborted, but was saved” \u2014 is compelling. And her<\/span> speech focused on the need to educate the future of humanity about abortion and about human life, which begins well before birth. Abortion has had a devastating impact on societies and families globally.<\/p>\n

Educating humans about their own beginnings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bennett began by referring to a woman with whom she had personally spoken years ago, who had a traumatic abortion experience. This woman began to question the circumstances that led to her abortion \u2014 not just her immediate circumstances, but her way of thinking. “One day it dawned on her,” Bennett said. “She remembered a lie that she was taught as a child. Planned Parenthood sex ed instructors came into her school and deceived her into thinking that a growing human life was merely a \u201cclump of cells.\u201d <\/span>A so-called sex educator planted a seed that birthed destruction in her life. How often does this happen in classrooms across our country? We know it is happening every day.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She noted that this is because “Planned Parenthood prides itself on being the single largest provider of sex education in US public schools,” and added that organization’s own most recent annual report “accounted for over 390,000 abortions a year.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“We cannot trust an organization that profits greatly from the deaths of preborn children to give medically accurate information about the developing person,” Bennett added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bennett then mentioned Live Action and its mission as a human rights organization, and its understanding of “the importance of educating students on the beauty, dignity and value of human life.” In line with this mission, Live Action created “Baby Olivia,” a \u00a0“state of the art animation created in partnership with leading OBGYNs and medical professionals.” <\/span><\/p>\n

The life-like animated video displays Baby Olivia from the moment her life begins \u2014 at fertilization, when a new human organism with its own unique DNA comes into being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n