Baby farming in Nigeria
<http://www.voicescarryblog.com/baby-farming-in-nigeria>http://www.voicescarryblog.com/baby-farming-in-nigeria Emacs! News from Nigeria makes me perk up for a couple of reasons. One, I've spent a couple of weeks there and two, one of <http://churchatthewell.org/content/view/11/37/>my closest friends is Nigerian. It's a wild place - good and bad. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452613,00.html>Today we learn that a police raid there has uncovered a baby farm. Police rescued 20 teenage girls. Here's the story; The doctor in charge, who is now on trial, reportedly lured teenagers with unwanted pregnancies by offering to help with abortion. They would be locked up there until they gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a token fee of around $170. The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything between $2500-$3800 each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). But luck ran out for the gynecologist, said to be in his 50s, when a woman to whom he had sold a day-old infant was caught by Nigeria's Security and Civil Defence Service (NSCDS) while trying to smuggle the child to Lagos, the security agency said. Another news agency adds <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24650838-23109,00.html>these details about this baby farming operation; The practice takes varying forms. One is where desperate teenagers with unplanned pregnancies, fearing ostracism by society, get lured to a clinic and are forced to turn over their babies. The girls are so intimidated many can hardly relate their experience freely. But one brave victim, an 18-year-old, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, recounted her week-long ordeal when she was trapped inside one of the clinics days before it was raided by police. "The moment I stepped in there, I was given an injection, I passed out and next thing I woke up and realised I had been raped," said the girl, who was five months pregnant at the time of her ordeal. When she asked if she could telephone her family to let them know of her whereabouts, the doctor slapped her on the face. She was shoved into a room where 19 other girls were kept; all had been through a similar experience. She said the doctor raped her again the following day. A week later police swooped on the clinic. Another category of young women, driven by deep poverty, lease out their wombs and volunteer themselves, as regularly as is biologically possible, to produce babies for sale. "When we raided the hospital, we found four women who had been staying at the clinic for up to three years, to breed babies," NSDCS boss for Enugu state commandant Desmond Agu said. The doctor, whom police named, "had been inviting boys to come and impregnate girls," said Mr Agu. This was just one of around a dozen centres - masquerading as maternity clinics, foster homes, orphanages or shelters for homeless pregnant girls - unearthed in recent months where babies were swapped for cash, said the NAPTITP boss. Last month police swooped on a so-called foster home, not far from the Enugu police headquarters, where seven pregnant teenage girls and five workers were rounded up, residents said. Abortion, baby farming, the exploitation and abuse of women - it's all the same demonic spirit whether it's manifesting here under the facade of a Planned Parenthood clinic or in Nigeria in a baby farm. Did you catch how this operation was "masquerading" as a legitimate health care facility. Sound familiar? The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a deposition in the Informed Consent case from a SD woman who was told to shut up and was medicated to calm her down so the abortion could proceed - that was right here in Sioux Falls. It's the same demonic spirit oppressing women to drink the blood of their children. These stories motivate me to fight harder. In what I consider <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451941,00.html>related news, yesterday Talibani "men" on motorcycles used waterbottles to spray acid in the faces of 15 Afghani girls. Why? Because they wanted to go to school. The oppression of women and the abuse and slaughter of children is demonic. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the Kingdom!<*}}}>< Prayer for Unborn Life: O GOD OF LIFE AND LOVE, You have given us the gift to participate with You to bring new life into the world. But, all too often, the mother's womb, which should be a nursery of life, becomes instead a place of it's destruction. Help us to remove this evil and ensure respect for all life made in Your image and likeness, called to fulfill its promise on this earth, and destined to find a home with you for all eternity. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our God, Our Savior, and Our ALL. Amen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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<*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the Kingdom!<*}}}>< Prayer for Unborn Life: O GOD OF LIFE AND LOVE, You have given us the gift to participate with You to bring new life into the world. But, all too often, the mother's womb, which should be a nursery of life, becomes instead a place of it's destruction. Help us to remove this evil and ensure respect for all life made in Your image and likeness, called to fulfill its promise on this earth, and destined to find a home with you for all eternity. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our God, Our Savior, and Our ALL. Amen.
