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Wendy Wright has been fighting to protect and preserve life, family and religious freedom for more than 15 years. As the president of Concerned Women for America, the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, Wright serves as a United Nations lobbyist, author, radio host and spokesperson on a wide range of pro-family and pro-life topics. In 2006, Washingtonian magazine named Wright one of “The 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington.” Wright traveled last week with a team of legal and human-rights experts to Pristina, Kosovo, to meet with government officials and religious leaders about their new Constitution. She spoke with CitizenLink about her trip. 1. What should Americans know about Kosovo? Kosovo declared independence and drafted a new Constitution that could be interpreted to allow abortion on demand and same-sex marriage. It would also remove the right of conscience protection from doctors. 2. Why do American officials and religious leaders care about the Kosovo Constitution? The team met with their new  new leaders to explain the problems in this new Constitution and what they can do about it.  They could

  
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adopt amendments, they could pass laws, and they could file statements with the U.N. that would help protect them from interference from U.N. committees to allow abortion on demand or same-sex marriage. 3. How did the leaders in Kosovo respond? We met with the president of Kosovo, the speaker of the parliament, and the top members of parliament. They took notes and seemed quite interested in the problems that we listed and possible solutions. The evangelical leaders in Kosovo seem quite anxious to pick up where we left off, to follow up with these government leaders to pass constitutional amendments and laws that would protect their rights. 4. What’s the mood of the Christians in Kosovo? They face a unique situation. They have an elected Parliament, a president and prime minister. However, they are under the ultimate control of a representative from the European Union and apparently this representative will have veto rights over constitutional amendments and legislation. So the Christians in Kosovo are quite concerned. 5. What’s your next step? We need to pray for the Christians in Kosovo, a tiny, tiny minority in that region of the world. We need to pray that they will be successful in getting protections in the Constitution and in the law for the preborn, for the preborn, for marriage and for religious expression.