Mon Mar 20, 2023 – 5:30 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A Ugandan Member of Parliament (MP) is taking the Canadian government and other Western nations to task for pressuring African nations into legalizing abortion, especially through hypocritical grandstanding about “human rights” and threats to withhold aid and funding.
Lucy Akello was gracious enough to speak with me on The John-Henry Westen Show, filmed in Ottawa after her bold pro-life testimony last Tuesday before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Click here to read LifeSiteNews’ coverage of Akello’s testimony.
Akello described her testimony before Canadian lawmakers as like “being in the den of lions.” She said they were urging her to accept abortion as a “universal human right” that should take precedence over Ugandan laws banning elective abortions.
“My stand is and will always be [that] Uganda is a sovereign nation, just like Canada is a sovereign nation. We have our values. Canada has its values,” she told me. “Let each of us stick to our values and not suppress the other simply because you have more money, I have less money, so you can play around with my head, play around with my
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