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Advocates, such as the newly formed Canadian proabortion organization, Action Canada for Sexual Health and
Rights (ACSHR), are part of a diverse and broad network
world-wide, funded by the U.S. Ford Foundation. According
to its website, the Foundation works with visionaries on
the frontlines of social change worldwide and claims that
sexuality is an important force for social change. The
grants are listed in the category of gender, sexuality and
reproductive justice, that is, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender), abortion and feminism.
Recipients of the Ford Foundations generous grants
include groups such as:
The environmental Tides Foundation, which is actively
working in Canada against the proposed Alberta oil pipelines;
the National Centre for Lesbian Rights, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian
and Straight Education Network); Gay Straight Alliance
Network; American Civil Liberties Union; and the feminist
Ms Foundation, founded by Gloria Steinem.
The Ford Foundation also funds the International
Commission of Jurists, (ICJ), which received $2,020,000
from the Foundation between 2006-2012. This was the
organization to which several Canadian legal academics
wrote in June, 2014 requesting it take action against Prime
Minister Harpers so-called unfounded criticism of Chief
Justice Beverley McLachlin. The latter, in an unprecedented
action, had tried to interfere with the appointment of Mr.
Justice Nadon, from Quebec, to her court. ICJ, naturally, did
as requested, and duly severely criticized Mr. Harper.
This was not surprising due to the fact that the ICJ
is composed of so-called human rights legal activists
with a progressive perspective. The current president
of ICJ served as the legal head of pro-abortion Amnesty
International, which itself received $2,525,000 from the
Ford Foundation between 20062013. One of the two
vice-presidents of the Commission is former Quebec Judge
Michle Rivet. She also served on the Quebec Human
Rights Tribunal and as a Commissioner of the left-wing (now
defunct) Canadian Law Reform Commission. Honorary
directors of the Commission include former Supreme Court
Judge, Claire LHeureux-Dube, known for her advocacy for
homosexual rights in Canada, both on the Bench and in
her public speeches, and the Australian homosexual activist
judge, Michael Kirby. The ICJ has analyzed international
case law for lawyers, judges and human rights activists in
order to provide evidence to support them in their sexual
orientation and gender identity cases.
The Ford Foundation has wide ranging influence on
academia, hospitals, schools, legislation, public policy and
foreign aid. It funds strategic litigation for anti-family action
on abortion, homosexuality, redefinition of marriage, gender
deconstruction in the form of transgender rights, and safe
schools in the form of gay-straight alliances. Abortion is
merely one part of the Ford Foundation agenda.
The Ford Foundations generously funded network of
left-wing organizations around the world is a constant danger
to life and family. q
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