courtesy of Facebook Anita Datar
NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 9:01 AM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 11:51 PM
BY JOHN SEASLY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
A 41-year-old former Peace Corps volunteer and global-health specialist is the latest person with roots in North Jersey to become a victim of global terror.
Anita Ashok Datar, a graduate of Mount Olive High School and Rutgers University, was one of at least 19 people killed in Friday’s terror attack on a hotel in Mali, the State Department confirmed in a statement.
No other U.S. citizens were believed to have died in the attack, carried out by heavily armed Islamic extremists at a Radisson hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako.
Related: New blow to France; 20 killed in attack on hotel in Mali, a former colony
Datar, a resident of Takoma Park, Md., was the mother of a 7-year-old boy. She devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said.
“We are devastated that Anita is gone,” her family said in a statement issued through the State Department. “It’s unbelievable to us that she has been killed in this senseless act of violence and terrorism.”
She was dedicated to propagating the progressive sacrament of abortion to the third world as a means for combating dreaded overpopulation. More like a government-supported angel of death than someone “devoted to helping and caring for others.” How can one have a child of one’s own and say they love them only to proselytize the idea that millions of other people should kill theirs in the womb?
She specialized in family planning and HIV education . . . where does it say she advocated abortion? 7:44pm sounds like a sick, sick human being.
My sympathy to Ms. Datars family.
And Planned Parenthood, all they do is hands out birth control and set up mammograms, right 10:53 pm? Open your eyes. Margaret Sanger and is the “sick, sick human being” on whom you should be you should be lashing out at. And Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg too, whose recent comments about Roe v. Wade revealed that its primary purpose was to reduce the number if people in certain segments of the population.
Well, she wasen’t home raising her child
USAID Awards Health Policy Plus (HP+) to Palladium
Palladium announced today the award of a new cooperative agreement from the United States Agency for International Development to strengthen and advance developing country health policy and financing for family planning and reproductive health, HIV, and maternal health.
The new project called Health Policy Plus (HP+) is a five-year $185 million project, implemented by Palladium with its global health partners Avenir Health, Futures Group Global Outreach, Plan International USA, Population Reference Bureau, RTI International, The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, and ThinkWell.
“This award for HP+ comes at a time when global health leaders are establishing new global sustainable health goals (SDGs), including goal 3 ‘ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages,’” said Ed Abel, president of Palladium’s U.S. business unit. “We are grateful to USAID in recognizing Palladium’s leadership in bringing positive impact to its global effort to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies through health policy and financing.”
HP+ builds upon previous USAID-funded health policy projects awarded to Palladium (formerly Futures Group), including the Health Policy Project, which concluded on September 29, 2015. The Health Policy Project was implemented in 48 countries worldwide from 2010 to 2015.
“This project will focus on strengthening policy, financing, governance and advocacy in developing countries,” said Suneeta Sharma, HP+ director. “We’re looking forward to collaborating with USAID, health ministries and civil society actors worldwide to foster more equitable, sustainable, rights-based health services, supplies and delivery systems using evidence-based approaches for decision making and resource allocation.”
HP+ will work with stakeholders in priority countries to advance equitable health policies informed by data and evidence, maximize and allocate resources, promote an enabling policy environment with a focus on good governance and accountability, and strengthen country leadership and ownership with an emphasis on meeting sustainable development goals.
About HP+
Health Policy Plus (HP+) is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-15-00051, beginning August 28, 2015. HP+ is implemented by Palladium, in collaboration with Avenir Health, Futures Group Global Outreach, Plan International USA, Population Reference Bureau, RTI International, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA), and ThinkWell.
On the Death of our Colleague Anita Datar
We are deeply saddened to confirm the tragic loss of our friend and colleague Anita Datar, who was killed during the attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali on November 20, 2015.
Ms Datar was in Mali along with two colleagues, both of whom were safely evacuated from the hotel.
Ms Datar had spent more than a decade pursuing global public health, specifically reproductive health and HIV. Most recently, she was the Senior Director for Field Programs for HP+, a USAID-funded health policy project focused on improving reproductive health in developing countries. She will be remembered as a dedicated humanitarian and a trusted and beloved colleague.
On behalf of everyone at Palladium, we extend our condolences to her family and friends. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.
DETAILS NEWS 20 NOVEMBER 2015
Kenya: Government, USAID to launch Sh66.4 billion medical supplies program
DateNovember 9, 2015
SourceCapital News
TypeIn the News
The Ministry of Health and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were on Monday set to launch a Sh66.4 billion Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) medical commodities program. The US Government awarded the funds through USAID in September; it is the largest award ever by the mission.
KEMSA MCP will procure, warehouse and distribute medications and equipment funded by PEPFAR, the US President’s Malaria Initiative and USAID Global Health programs for maternal and child health and family planning.
HR2FP (Human Right to Family Planning) Program Schedule
updated October 5
9:45 amPanel 10: Abortion: An Important Part of Family Planning(Panel 10 Speaker Bios
Willie Parker, MD – Doctor at last abortion clinic in Mississippi
Joan Kaufman, MA, M.S., Sc.D – Director, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, Beijing, China
Alison Edelman, MD – Department of OBGYN, Oregon Health and Sciences University
This panel will focus on the critical importance of abortion as part of the right to family planning and extend the discussion that has already begun on this issue during the previous days. The legal and comprehensive health aspects of abortion access will be reviewed, while focusing on action in support of women’s rights.
Why Birth Control is Essential to Women Everywhere
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
Why Birth Control is Essential to Women EverywhereBy Kirsten M.J. Thompson | December 14, 2013
Despite the advances that have been made in contraception over the past fifty years, an estimated 222 million women worldwide cannot get the birth control they want and need.
Access to safe, appropriate, and affordable family planning and abortion care helps women have children when they desire and saves lives. It can prevent dangers from pregnancies that are:
Too Soon. A quarter of the world’s women live in countries where theaverage age at first birth is less than 20 years old. A woman who bears children at a younger age tends to have more children overall, is less able to provide for them, and is more likely to suffer ill health. Children born to very young mothers are also more likely to have health problems.
Too Late. Older women face more danger in pregnancy and birth if they have other health problems or have had many children.
Too Close. A woman’s body needs time to heal between pregnancies — ideally 18 months or more.
Too Many. A woman with more than four children has a greater risk of death after childbirth from bleeding and other causes.
Not Wanted. Women who have unwanted pregnancies are more likely to have abortions. Unfortunately, nearly half of all abortions worldwide are considered unsafe, which means they are performed by an individual lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both. Unsafe abortion is common in places where abortion is illegal. Each year about 68,000 women die of unsafe abortion, making it a leading cause of maternal death.
By delaying and spacing out childbearing, a woman increases her chances of finishing school and finding work that will provide a viable income. Modern birth control methods also have other health benefits, like improving anemia by reducing menstrual bleeding. Male and female condoms also prevent the spread of some sexually transmitted infections(STIs) including HIV.
Access to family planning and abortion care has improved over time, but significant barriers remain, especially where health care systems are weak. Barriers to family planning access include lack of knowledge about contraception, limited choices, high costs, limited supplies, long distances to services, too few trained healthcare providers, and cultural or personal objections. In some places the right of a woman to choose when and how many children she has is seen as someone else’s decision or right. In other cases, women are pressured or even forced to have children in order to have a child of the desired sex, usually male.
All women deserve access to safe, affordable birth control and abortion care. To find out more about efforts to improve family planning access around the world, see….
International “family planning” programs are primarily directed toward encouraging third world countries to provide unlimited access to abortion, and to conduct or turn a blind eye toward mass sterilization (coerced or forced). This is the reality of the current push for international “maternal and child health care.” GLOBAL POPULATION CONTROL (and if possible, global population reduction by seven eighths from 8 billion to no more than one billion) is the real goal. Everything else is mere window dressing designed to give this effort the at least a thin veneer of legitimacy.
Obama’s Bad Math on Islamic Terrorism [99.9% of Muslims Reject Terrorism? Really?]
National Review
11/23/2015
Josh Gelernter
Since the Paris attacks last week, a lot has been made of the Muslim world’s overwhelming disapproval of terrorism. Let me toss in my two cents:
There are 3,500 Muslims in the U.S. military. Muslims have fought for our side in all of America’s major wars. There are decorated Muslim soldiers buried in Arlington.
There are Muslims in the Israel Defense Forces — all of them volunteers. An Israeli Muslim officer, Major Fehd Fallah, says he became a Zionist after visiting the death camps in Poland as a teenager. Now in his 30s, he is described by an Israeli colonel as “one of the best officers in the IDF.”
Muslims serve loyally in Britain’s armed forces too — as of last February, according to the Telegraph, there were 480 of them. But, as the Telegraph points out, that’s 120 fewer British Muslims than fight for ISIS.
Muslims are no more fundamentally bad than Christians or Jews. But it is not true that, as President Obama has said, “99.9 percent of Muslims” reject Islamic terrorism.
Obama’s 99.9 percent figure is demonstrably false. Pew Research has polled the issue extensively. In surveys of the Muslim populations of nine majority-Muslim countries, plus Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank, an average of 57 percent have an unfavorable view of al-Qaeda, not 99.9 percent. Thirteen percent have a favorable view of al-Qaeda, not 0.1 percent.
The same proportion supports the Taliban. One in four of the Muslims polled supports Hezbollah. For those who need a Hezbollah refresher: In 1984, it kidnapped the CIA’s Beirut station chief, William Buckley. For 15 months, Hezbollah slowly tortured Buckley to death. The CIA received videos from Hezbollah that showed Buckley “close to a gibbering wretch. His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.” His remains were eventually discovered dumped on the side of a road. One in four Muslims in the Muslim world supports Hezbollah.
One in three supports Hamas. If you need a Hamas refresher: On March 27, 2002, the Park Hotel in the Israeli city of Netanya was holding a Passover meal for mostly elderly Jews who had no family and nowhere else to go for the holiday. Several were Holocaust survivors. A member of Hamas walked into the hotel dining room and detonated a suicide vest, killing 30 and wounding 140 others. The Palestinian Authority dedicated a soccer tournament to the bomber’s memory. One in three Muslims in the Muslim world supports Hamas.
In Turkey — which is a member of NATO — one in four Muslims believes suicide bombings are sometimes justified. More than one in two Muslims believe this in Egypt and Jordan; more than two of three believe it in Nigeria.
The situation is not much different among Muslims in Western countries. In Britain and Spain, one in four Muslims believes suicide bombings are sometimes justified. One in three believes it in France. Slightly more than one in ten believes it in the United States (per a Pew poll from 2011). According to a poll conducted by a Georgetown Islamic Studies professor and a Gallup pollster, more than one in three Muslims worldwide believe that the 9/11 attacks were “somewhat,””largely,”or “completely” justified (23.1 percent say “somewhat”; 13.5 percent say “largely”or “completely”.
According to CBS, polling shows that “almost one in four British Muslims believe that the [2005] 7/7 attacks on London were justified.”According to the Financial Times, polling shows that more than one in three British Muslims see Britain’s Jewish community as a “legitimate target as part of the struggle for justice in the Middle East.”Not Israelis but British Jews. Their Jewish neighbors. One in three.
According to the BBC, more than one in four British Muslims agree with the statement: “I have some sympathy for the motives behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.”According to a major Turkish newspaper — the Hrriyet Daily News — one in five Turks believes Charlie Hebdo’s murdered cartoonists “got what they deserved.”
When a position is held by one in five, one in four, one in three, it’s part of the mainstream. According to Gallup, one in three Americans believes abortion should be illegal even in the first trimester; one in four Americans believes it should be legal even after the first trimester. The proportion of Americans who believe abortion should always be illegal is the same as the proportion of French Muslims who believe suicide bombings are sometimes justified. The proportion of Americans who believe abortions should be legal after the first trimester is the same as the proportion of British Muslims who believe the 7/7 attacks were justified. How many pro- and anti-abortion acquaintances do you have? Which of those views is at the fringe of American society?
I whole-heartedly believe that Muslim pro-terrorists are in the minority — but it’s a large and powerful minority; not a tenth of 1 percent. Pretending otherwise, for the sake of being sanctimonious, accomplishes nothing. Imagine if Muslims did shun terrorists the way Christians shun the KKK. At the risk of sounding sanctimonious myself, a little healthy shunning would make the world a much safer and much better place. It’s certainly not outside the realm of possibility — but wishing won’t make it so.
— Josh Gelernter writes weekly for NRO and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard. He is a founder of the tech startup Dittach.
Abortion and American foreign policy.
Author:
Trueman PA
Source:
International Review of Natural Family Planning. 1981 Spring; 5(1):26-35.
Abstract:
As a matter of foreign policy, the U.S. government, as well as publicly and privately funded nongovernmental agencies in the U.S., give high priority to the population control of foreign countries. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is foremost among the abortion promoting agencies in the U.S. Part of the Department of State, USAID, even before abortion was legal in the U.S., promoted abortion worldwide. Since the 1960s its involvement has expanded steadily. USAID has had a profound influence on the spread of abortion as a means of population control throughout the world through its distribution of abortifacients, through its grants to multilateral population organizations that promote abortion, and through its abortion research. Few efforts have been made to curtail USAID’s abortion activities. In 1973 the 1st effort was made, but the abortion efforts of USAID were only partially restricted, and not seriously so. In that year, Senator Jesse Helms proposed an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 intended to rid USAID of any involvement in abortion related activities. As proposed, the Helms amendment did not pass. A shortened version did. Truncation of the original Helms language was a clear victory for the abortion promoters at USAID. A review of USAID activities in the promotion of Depo-Provera and the Dalkon shield provides an insight into the methods that this agency uses in circumventing the Helms Amendment. The promotion of these contraceptive/abortifacient agents also demonstrates the double standard that the U.S. government has applied in the utilization of these drugs. Depo-Provera is considered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be unsafe to use for birth control in the U.S. USAID’s distribution of Depo-Provera has not deterred the agency from distributing it to developing countries, and the distribution has been carried out through both covert and overt programs. By far, USAID’s most important impact on worldwide abortion has been through its support of abortion research. In sum, despite the congressional restriction, the influence of USAID on the propagation of abortion continues to be monumental. It continues only because the citizens of the U.S., particularly those who are part of the prolife movement, are unaware of these abortion activities. The population of the U.S. does not want its tax dollars spent for abortion, and the prolife movement has transformed this sentiment into public policy. Once informed of USAID’s promotion of abortion, the prolife movement will act to transform U.S. foreign policy into a policy that is also prolife.
Language:
English
Year:
1981
Someone really knows how to copy and paste. Impressive but do you think anyone is reading your spew.
Facts trump opinion. The terror victim was working full time on behalf of USAid to reduce the “surplus” population of black africans. A sick occupation in which one would not expect a biological mother of a seven-year-old child to be engaged.
take this down from the blog….its an absolute embarassment.