{"id":760,"date":"2023-03-01T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:58:11","slug":"rosary-wearing-jill-biden-promotes-contraception-to-kenyas-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/rosary-wearing-jill-biden-promotes-contraception-to-kenyas-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosary-wearing Jill Biden promotes contraception to Kenya\u2019s young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Jill-Biden-Rosary-810x500.png\" alt=\"Featured Image\" width=\"398\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 First Lady of the United States Jill Biden encouraged young Kenyans to continue spreading propaganda about contraception and \u201csafe sex\u201d at their churches and schools, all while wearing a Rosary around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2023\/02\/21\/jill-biden-africa-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-day trip<\/a>\u00a0to Namibia and Kenya last week, Biden participated in multiple events pertaining to the \u201cempowerment of women and youth.\u201d On Saturday the First Lady stopped by the Shujaaz Konnect Festival in Nairobi, Kenya, where she dropped in on a watch party for \u201cMTV Shuga,\u201d an African drama series that aims to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f487fa0e-f724-11e9-bbe1-4db3476c5ff0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promote<\/a>\u00a0\u201csexual and reproductive health and rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/first-lady-pool-reports-february-25-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press pool notes<\/a>\u00a0compiled by\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reporter Jada Yuan, the Rosary-sporting Biden commended Kenyan youth attending the festival for their willingness to learn about and discuss \u201csafe dating and safe sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lsntv.com\/videoEmbed\/64\/breaking-rosary-wearing-jill-biden-promotes-contraception-to-kenya-s-young-people?channelName=_63ebc6e390886&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;showinfo=1&amp;autoplay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;loop=&amp;mute=1&amp;t=0&amp;objectFit=\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I] really applaud you for wanting to learn more about [the U.S. President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] and HIV\/AIDS and financial literacy and safe dating and safe sex,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know, these are issues that really all people need to talk about them [sic]. Yet, somehow, they don\u2019t, and the consequences of not talking about it are so dire. So, I love seeing the young people here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shujaaz Konnect Festival is organized by media company Shujaaz Inc. and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, with the help of PEPFAR and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). PEPFAR was launched in 2003 by President George W. Bush to help people afflicted with AIDS, which is still a major cause of death in African countries.<\/p>\n<p>At the \u201cMTV Shuga\u201d watch party itself, Biden led a discussion about what the attendees learn from the show and how they share those lessons with others. One of the participants, per the press pool notes, emphasized the importance of \u201cusing a condom\u201d to prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes the AIDS disease.<\/p>\n<p>The First Lady then asked if the show promotes other types of \u201cprevention for safe sex\u201d like \u201cbirth control pills,\u201d to which another participant answered, \u201ccontraception for unintended pregnancy prevention and PrEP for HIV prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Biden followed up with, \u201cThen so do you go into your neighborhoods or your churches or your schools and then do you spread the word further?\u201d And when she received a \u201cchorus of yeses,\u201d she asked and got an affirmative answer about them being \u201cambassadors for this program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"subscribe-form-inserted\">\u201cOkay, that gives me a better picture,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knbs.or.ke\/?wpdmpro=2019-kenya-population-and-housing-census-volume-iv-distribution-of-population-by-socio-economic-characteristics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">majority Christian<\/a>\u00a0country, with 85% of the population identifying as Christian and one-third of all Christians identifying as Catholic. LifeSiteNews recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/shows\/the-john-henry-westen-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Africa<\/a>\u00a0to report on the heroic individuals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/african-bishop-we-will-stand-for-gods-truth-even-if-it-means-martyrdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resisting<\/a>\u00a0the Western-led imposition of pro-abortion, pro-contraception, and pro-LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Despite professing to be Catholics, the First Lady and her husband, President Joe Biden, have long been outspoken advocates of \u201cabortion rights\u201d and gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Biden administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/biden-administration-pressures-small-african-country-to-drop-pro-life-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressured<\/a>\u00a0the African country of Benin to remove its name from the pro-life Geneva Consensus Declaration, which declares that abortion is not a human right.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, LifeSiteNews\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/help-us-dont-kill-us-africans-plead-with-biden-to-not-fund-abortion-in-their-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on a group of Africans who unsuccessfully pleaded with Biden in a video message not to resume funding for organizations that provide abortions. Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/global-health-policy\/fact-sheet\/mexico-city-policy-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repealed<\/a>\u00a0the so-called \u201cMexico City Policy,\u201d a Trump-era policy, on his ninth day in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(LifeSiteNews) \u2014 First Lady of the United States Jill Biden encouraged young Kenyans to continue spreading propaganda about contraception and \u201csafe sex\u201d at their churches and schools, all while wearing a Rosary around her neck. As part of her\u00a0five-day trip\u00a0to Namibia and Kenya last week, Biden participated in multiple events pertaining to the \u201cempowerment of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/rosary-wearing-jill-biden-promotes-contraception-to-kenyas-young-people\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Rosary-wearing Jill Biden promotes contraception to Kenya\u2019s young people&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeeducationcouncil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}