*Third World ‘aid’ went to abortion agencies


Ethiopia in the horn of Africa has suffered several major famines in recent years and many people in the country are chronically hungry. Over half the population live on less than E1 per day.

Irish people would have assumed, then, that government “aid” going to Ethiopia was sent to help these poorest of the poor.

But now, it appears, the government, over the past decade, has instead been pumping millions of euros, taxpayers’ money, into various agencies which fund the killing of tens of thousands of unborn children in Ethiopia.


And much of this money was sent to these evil agencies when Micheál Martin, present leader of Fianna Fáil, was Minister for Foreign Affairs, from 2008 to 2011.

Breaking the shocking scandal, the Sunday Independent (9th June) reported that “between 2005 and 2012, Irish Aid gave over E8.5m to two of Ethiopia’s biggest abortion providers.”
One of these agencies, the Family Guidance Association (FGAE), got €2.7m from Irish Aid between 2008 and 2012.

FGAE lists the provision of “safe abortion services” as one of its “major focus areas”, wrote Rory Fitzgerald in the Independent.

In 2011 alone, it killed 50,000 unborn children, funding its abortion racket from its “unrestricted funding”. Irish Aid provided 10% of that funding in 2011.

In 2002, the US ended its funds to FGAE, due to President George Bush’s policy of not supporting outfits that offer abortion “services” abroad. However, by 2008 Irish Aid had become one of FGAE’s core funders.

Another agency, DTK Ethiopia, the biggest supplier of abortion kits to the Ethiopian government, received a staggering €5.8m from Ireland.

Almost 10% of DTK’s total donor support came from Irish Aid in the period 2005 to 2012.

In the period 2005 to 2009 Irish Aid gave DKT E4.8m and only in early 2010, according to DKT, did Irish authorities specify that the money should not be used for killing the unborn.

But it is generally recognised that even when “restrictions” are introduced to prevent monies being spent on abortion, they are probably of little value.

An International Planned Parenthood Federation report in 2012 stated that “[all] resources from FGAE’s donors are used in a similar way and it is therefore difficult, and somewhat artificial, to isolate the individual impact of one of the donors.”

Put simply, the Irish “restrictions” against abortion were seen as simply irrelevant.

Lauding the involvement of Ireland in the killing of unborn African babies, it added that core funders, such as Irish Aid, were “making a significant direct impact … particularly in the areas of access to safe abortion.”

Incredibly, Micheál Martin has described present Fine Gael proposals to legalise the killing of unborn children up to the time of birth as “consistent with a prolife position.”

He made every effort to compel Fianna Fáil TDs to back the bill, but had to abandon the attempt due to strong resistance from within the party.

Due to the economic crisis in Ireland, funding for the Ethiopian agencies was reduced when the present government came to power and it was finally axed at the end of 2012.




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