Caracas Will Vote for Life

A few days ago in Caracas we learned some very serious news: the transsexual candidate Tomás Adrián (who goes by the name Tamara), 62, who was put forward by the Voluntad Popular party as a list candidate for deputy in Caracas, supports abortion and euthanasia and is linked to the global abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

But why have so many people in Caracas been surprised by this news? Because we caraqueños (like the vast majority of Venezuelans) are people who defend life at every stage, from conception to natural death.

It turns out that this candidate works hand in hand with Planned Parenthood in a Venezuelan organization called Plafam, where the candidate is listed as secretary. Anyone who wants to see with their own eyes the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Plafam can visit its website, www.plafam.org.ve/. And at this link you can download Planned Parenthood’s 2014 annual report, whose last pages show a contribution to Venezuela of 462,000 dollars for Plafam: http://www.ippf.org/resource/Financial-statement-2014

That global organization, Planned Parenthood, which is being investigated by the United States Congress after being exposed in dozens of secretly filmed videos of abortions and of the handling of the organs of murdered babies to be sold as parts, sends its dollars to Venezuela to try to instill its ideology of death in girls and teenagers, whom it educates from a very early age for sexual promiscuity with a supposed “protection.”

Now we know who this candidate is: someone who claims to defend human rights, but who has no qualms about saying in forums, interviews and so on that laws must be created to allow abortion and euthanasia. I quote verbatim part of one of those interviews: “We have to talk about euthanasia, we have to talk about abortion, we have to talk about things that need to be legislated, that need to be faced beyond prejudice” (informe21.com).

But defending life and the family is not prejudice. We Venezuelans are not murderers, and we will not allow anyone to change our mentality of loving Life. We are living under a regime that has brought us a great deal of death and pain. A regime we want to end NOW, to rescue Life with a capital L. We do not want a change that brings more injustice and more death.

We Venezuelans love life. Do you know why Venezuela has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy? Because Venezuelan women would not even jokingly consider killing their child. That is the truth! And whoever thinks of abortion does so because she is alone and desperate, and what we must do is help, not kill. The solution to teenage pregnancy is not abortion but an integral education of the person, so that she studies, works and lives chastity until she marries, because sex is meant for marriage.

The solution is not to kill the child in her womb, who is a blessing! And we women of Caracas and of Venezuela know that very well. We do not want people from the “developed world” coming to impose their ideology of death on us.

We want Life, not death! Enough of all the death that crime has left us in these 17 years of misrule and corruption. We want change, but a change toward Life!

It is very painful that the opposition Unity coalition allowed this candidacy. Perhaps some of those who allowed it did not know about this person’s relationship with Planned Parenthood. Many people have said that if this candidate is not removed, they will spoil their ballot in the list vote for the Capital District and will urge many others to do the same. Let us hope the Unity coalition can resolve this quickly, and that the political parties understand that mistakes of this kind cannot be made.

We people of Caracas, and all Venezuelans, will not allow a candidate who defends death, and who is linked to the global abortion provider Planned Parenthood, to reach our National Assembly.

We will vote for Life and not for more Death!!