Health officials from around the world This week, the World Health Assembly, hosted by the World Health Organization, is meeting in Geneva with the aim of forging consensus to prepare governments and protect their populations against the next international pandemic.
But the Family Research Council describes the conference's aims as “blatant” and “an unprecedented power grab,” threatening to install “a system of governance that could ultimately be used to take away our freedoms” and “setting the stage for a one-world government.”
“The WHO has shown its cards. It is not on the side of freedom, life or family,” the FRC said in a fundraising statement. “Everything our great country stands for is at stake.”
Another fundraiser claimed: “If our government representatives don't act, we could be at the mercy of this global system of governance.”
The FRC, a conservative political group founded 41 years ago by James Dobson of Focus on the Family, has not provided any justification for its broad claims. It says that if passed, the agreement would give WHO unprecedented broad powers, including the power to dictate countries' responses to any event that WHO considers a “crisis.”
The WHO argues that this is not the case: it lacks the enforcement powers to enforce its policies on member states.
FRC advocates for many aspects of life It would come under the control of the WHO. “Climate change, the right to life, sex reassignment surgery for minors, freedom of speech… under the WHO's current proposal, anything can fall under the category of public health. The WHO makes the rules.”
This is not true, says the WHO, which wants to provide health benefits to people tackling issues like climate change, ageing and migration. The World Health Assembly has addressed transgender treatment, but only for adults, not minors, as the FRC claims.
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus spoke out against the “numerous lies and conspiracy theories” that have been put forward about the organization's work.
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FRC's attack was embraced by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson appeared on a recent episode of FRC's “This Week on the Hill” show, hosted by FRC Chairman Tony Perkins, Johnson's longtime mentor.
“Globalists are trying to undermine American sovereignty,” Johnson told Perkins. “We cannot allow these international organizations to dictate our policies.”
Many conservative Republicans in the House and Senate oppose the World Health Assembly, which aims to get countries to share information about their domestic pandemic outbreaks more quickly and provide more vaccines to poorer countries.
Travis Weber of the FRC said the federal government should not get involved in protecting the public from future pandemics, and that the effort “should be left to the states. Why should the federal government be taking on this issue in the first place?”
“Globalists are trying to undermine American sovereignty.”
Last week, Donald Trump promised attendees at the Libertarian Convention that he would “rip up” and “destroy” the agreement with the WHO if re-elected, saying: “I will defend American sovereignty from the creeping hand of a world government.”
The FRC has criticised some of the The WHO statement asserts in religious terms: “It is clear that spiritual forces, invisible to the naked eye, are at work to harm, divide and weaken people and nations, setting the stage for world powers to swoop in and 'save the crisis.'”
“The Bible teaches us to 'have no participation in the unfruitful works of darkness, but expose them (Ephesians 5:11)',” the FRC said in a fundraising email to supporters in May. “That is what the FRC aims to do. We call on all faithful Christians like you to help expose the WHO's works of darkness.”
“When that time comes, we want to be found faithful in defending the faith against spiritual enemies who seek to oppress and harm God's creation,” the FRC letter said, without explaining whether the WHO's activities constitute “profitable works of darkness,” a term the apostle Paul used to condemn sexual immorality, impurity, greed, lewdness, foolish talking and vulgar jesting.
The FRC claims that the WHO The claim to create a “one-world government” is reminiscent of attacks on the United Nations by conservative isolationists and libertarians more than half a century ago. The John Birch Society led the “Get Out of the UN!” campaign in 1959, arguing that “the whole point of the UN is to establish a one-world government.” In 1971, Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, argued that the UN was “an instrument for Communist world domination.”
The FRC also claims that the WHO is “planning a massive surveillance network to control us, but the mainstream media won't report on it.” One guest on Perkins' show echoed this unverified claim, saying, “They want to track everyone.”
“Time is of the essence,” FRC said in a fundraising email. “We must awaken more Americans to this threat to their faith, their family, and their freedom.”
FRC is “Educate members of Congress about the dangers that the WHO plan poses to your freedoms” and “inform churches and clergy associations across the country about how this 'pandemic pact' may affect their congregations.”
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