{"id":1107500,"date":"2021-12-10T21:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107500"},"modified":"2021-12-10T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:43:42","slug":"guatemala-president-keynotes-dc-pro-life-reception-after-biden-excludes-him-from-democracy-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guatemala-president-keynotes-dc-pro-life-reception-after-biden-excludes-him-from-democracy-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala President Keynotes DC Pro-Life Reception After Biden Excludes Him from Democracy Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fguatemala-president-keynotes-dc-pro-life-reception-after-biden-excludes-him-from-democracy-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1107500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/President-of-Guatemala-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The pro-life president of Guatemala gave the keynote address Tuesday at a gathering focused on the dignity of all human life after having been excluded from President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/biden-aims-to-unite-nations-against-authoritarianism-at-summit-for-democracy\/\">Summit for Democracy<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>President Alejandro Giammattei offered keynote remarks at a reception in Washington, DC, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theiwh.org\/\">Institute for Women\u2019s Health<\/a>&nbsp;International Human Rights Group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INTERVIEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INTERVIEW<\/a> | Why Didn\u2019t Biden Invite Guatemala to the Summit for Democracy?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanessavallej0?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VanessaVallej0<\/a> talked to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrGiammattei?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrGiammattei<\/a>, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Guatemala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Guatemala<\/a> \ud83c\uddf9.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ItNj4W1ity\">https:\/\/t.co\/ItNj4W1ity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El American (@ElAmerican_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElAmerican_\/status\/1469315516686868480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), chairman of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, also spoke at the event at the Willard Hotel, both thanking Giammattei for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/13\/guatemala-pro-life-declaration\/\">signing<\/a> his country on to the international pro-life Geneva Consensus Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The Declaration is a pro-life effort initiated by the Trump administration but rejected earlier this year by the pro-abortion rights Biden administration. It serves as a rebuke to the U.N. and World Health Organization (W.H.O.), both of which promote global abortion rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nations that participate in the Declaration seek to promote women\u2019s health as well as the \u201cstrength of the family and of a successful and flourishing society.\u201d The governments also affirm \u201cthe essential priority of protecting the right to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giammattei affirmed his defense of all human life during his remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>Doing one\u2019s duty should go without thanks. And all I have done has been my duty\u2026 Every individual deserves to have their lives protected, from conception to natural death\u2026 It is totally false that abortion is a human right. Any effort to try to impose abortion in a country is undue interference in international affairs\u2026 We seek to protect life and to prevent interference. We do not approve of abortion because of my faith but also my profession as a medical doctor. Life should be protected from conception.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.219081272085\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">***PRESS RELEASE*** Guatemalan President not invited to Biden Democracy Summit, instead offers pro-life keynote at Institute for Women\u2019s Health, International Human Rights Group gathering <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srpgn66jFC\">pic.twitter.com\/srpgn66jFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Institute for Women&#8217;s Health (@IWH4women) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWH4women\/status\/1469055414797049859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Guatemala is a democracy, the country was not invited to Biden\u2019s Democracy Summit at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have heard of a presidential Summit happening here, but that\u2019s not what I\u2019ve come for,\u201d Giammattei said. \u201cWe should not be demanded to adopt ideas that go against our beliefs, our faith, and our ideas, even if it costs not getting invited to the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1645962732919\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many don\u2019t know that under pro-abortion admins, the US has pressured countries to liberalize their abortion laws (which is illegal). Grateful to President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrGiammattei?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrGiammattei<\/a> for his courageous stand for life. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GCD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GCD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GenevaConsensusDeclaration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GenevaConsensusDeclaration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4mGCQfJCzT\">https:\/\/t.co\/4mGCQfJCzT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katelyn Walls Shelton (@AnnaKateShelt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaKateShelt\/status\/1468392761208549377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News\u2019s John Roberts Wednesday, Giammattei also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/guatemalan-president-has-had-zero-contact-with-white-house-since-border-czar-harris-june-meeting-exclusive\">said<\/a> he has not spoken with the White House since he met Vice President Kamala Harris, the Biden administration\u2019s border czar, during the summer in Guatemala City.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the illegal immigration crisis, Giammattei said it \u201cneeds to be stopped on the basis of structural causes,\u201d such as the drug cartels in Mexico that also smuggle Guatemalans and others into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big business to run trafficking-person schemes,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s a $4 billion business for these criminals. And therefore, we need to address structural causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giammattei, a member of the conservative Vamos Party, also noted he is \u201cnot the same ideology\u201d as the Biden administration, noting Biden officials have \u201cexpressed great happiness with the change that recently occurred in the election inside Honduras with the new president-elect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>In Honduras, the left-wing Liberty &amp; Refoundation Party candidate Xiomara Castro won that country\u2019s election earlier this year, defeating Nasry Asfura, a member of the Christian-Humanist \u201cNational\u201d Party of incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez, signaling a leftward political shift in Tegucigalpa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.480519480519\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He insisted that the country does not believe in abortion, by faith and by his capacity as a doctor, but especially because &#8216;the Constitution in its article 1 says that the State preserves life from its conception.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qm78CQbSil\">https:\/\/t.co\/qm78CQbSil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Institute for Women&#8217;s Health (@IWH4women) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWH4women\/status\/1468690107964268548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the pro-life reception in Washington, Giammattei announced Guatemala would be declared the pro-life capital of IberoAmerica on March 9, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recently learned that our own United States Government funded a video project promoting medical abortion in an area of Latin America where abortion is not legal,\u201d said Valerie Huber, President of the Institute for Women\u2019s Health and architect of the Geneva Consensus Declaration. \u201cAnd in another country, I heard we are supporting pro-abortion candidates for that nation\u2019s Congress. That\u2019s meddling\u2026 or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-life president of Guatemala gave the keynote address Tuesday at a gathering focused on the dignity of all human life after having been excluded from President Joe Biden\u2019s Summit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}