I was really interested and also somewhat incensed after reading the articles about CEDAW and abortion in your SATMAG of the 27th May. Interested, because abortion and population control are such burning issues in our society, but much neglected in the media. My congratulations to you for recognising that these are issues the public need to be informed about. Incensed, well, frankly, because some of what Sunila Abeysekera says are downright lies. I am not exaggerating.

There is plenty of documentation about the nature of CEDAW. But it is enough to refer to the article by Feizal Samath, found on the website http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=24194%20, and the first paragraph of which I quote below:

 "When a participant rejoiced at a recent Sri Lankan discussion on the proposed Women's Rights Bill, others bluntly told her to remain silent. She had spotted a section that subtly deals with the controversial issue of abortion.  ‘Shoo ... don't talk about it,’ urged Sunila Abeysekera, the head of INFORM, a human rights NGO.  ‘At least we have it in this bill,’ she said, while trying to control her laughter."  

It’s just unimaginable how these abortion lovers are deceiving everyone. Let’s face it – when in 2002 the CEDAW committee instructed Sri Lanka to legalise abortion, Prof Savithri Gunasekera was a member of that very same CEDAW committee. Today she tells everyone, as does Sunila, that CEDAW has nothing to do with abortion. How can they keep doing this, in the face of all the evidence, I cannot imagine.

I could go on, but I will make just two more points. Firstly it is atrocious that Sunila - who is well known as a promoter of the so-called abortion right - is saying in the report done by Shamali Murugesu that:

A) women should not commit abortion, but that B) abortion is seen as a method of contraception, and that C)women should get all the "contraception" they want. It is just a roundabout way of saying that women should have abortions.

The other thing is that she is talking of entering the 21st Century, but living in the 19th when she says that women need to have thermometers and regular periods to be aware of her changes in fertility. Today knowledge of the signs associated with fertility is so advanced that even breastfeeding women and menopausal women can easily know when they are fertile and when not. I mean, Mother Theresa taught ignorant slum dwellers in Calcutta this knowledge and that worked pretty well.

Sunila also acknowledges that contraception is indeed a way that women submit to men who do not care about their cycle of fertility. This is an admission that women contracept out of submission and it is not a way of becoming empowered as the feminists say.

I know I have written passionately, but I hope you will publish these comments, because the public is being fooled about the work of the feminist NGOs so strongly supported and funded by the UN and US and EU Governments. We Sri Lankan women, the real women in the real world, really need to thank Dr Dias and his team who stand up for the truth and defend the genuine interests of women and promote authentic values such as marriage, family, motherhood and the fundamental concept that men and women are made one for the other, where women don’t try to become men but flourish in their femininity.