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Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:49 in
Abortion, Paul Tuns, Planned Parenthood, Population | Author:
By Paul Tuns The Interim
Population conference says 10-year-olds have right to contraception and ‘safe' abortions
Between June 30 and July 2, a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations reviewed the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.
Planners of Cairo+5, including the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, sought to expand abortion rights and contraception access, as well as promote sexual ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 1999 at 6:46 in
Issues, Population | Author:
By Millie Walker Trainor The Interim
The once-noble United Nations children's agency UNICEF is no longer what it was. It has undergone a facelift.
In July l998, in Geneva, the UN officially established a new alliance of three UN social agencies: UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. In a press release, the UN Children's Fund and the World Health Organization were said to have "invited" the UNFPA to join them ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jul, 1999 at 9:26 in
Abortion, Population | Author:
By Doreen Beagan The Interim
The directors of Prince Edward Island Right to Life were in for a shock when they began to study the 50-year-old United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, says president Pauline MacDonald. Reading Interim columnist Winifride Prestwich's booklet, UNICEF: Guilty as Charged, they learned that:
UNICEF is not a true charity, but an international organization controlled by a board of UN representatives, each with their own agenda;
Over the past 30 years, it has ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 1999 at 11:15 in
Population | Author:
Jean Guifoyle
The food business is far and away the most important business in the world. Everything else is luxury. Food is what you need to sustain life every day. You can't run a tractor without fuel, and you can't run a human being without it either. Food is the absolute beginning. (Dwayne Andreas, former chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Co., Reuters, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Apr, 1999 at 8:18 in
Population | Author:
By John-Henry Westen
The Interim
Pro-lifers assist 'G-77' delegates in defying renewed push for pupulation control
With the help of Canadian pro-lifers, delegates from developing countries stood up to the population control agenda of the West at a recent United Nations meeting in New York.
Moments after getting on the airplane at LaGuardia airport in New York, Campagne Québec-Vie president Gilles Grondin told LifeSite News that the so-called "G-77" countries present at the "Cairo+5" preparatory meeting even caused an extension of the conference closing date from March ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Sep, 1998 at 12:58 in
Paul Tuns, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Shortly after his 1996 re-election, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori initiated an ambitious program of population control, featuring "sex education" and sterilization in the heavily Roman Catholic country. Critics of the program see population control as a trade-off with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and foreign governments for much-needed economic aid.
American G. Joseph Rees, a Congressional committee staff aide, went to Peru to investigate charges of human-rights ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jul, 1998 at 8:04 in
Population | Author:
Tony Gosgnach A state-run Chinese newspaper has finally admitted what pro-life advocates have known and been trying to tell the world for some time—Chinese officials are using force to implement a policy that calls for one child per family in urban areas, and two per family in rural regions. The report comes on the heels of dramatic testimony before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee by a former Chinese population-control administrator, who said that forced abortions and sterilizations are common practices ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jul, 1998 at 11:24 in
Population | Author:
Jean Guilfoyle
The population-control ideology and the means to achieve it can be found in a U.S. executive-level government document entitled National security study memorandum 200: Implications of worldwide population growth for U.S. security and overseas interests (NSSM 200), published in 1974 and declassified in 1989. Although this plan of action was to be activated in developing countries, it was designed as a two-edged sword that could be swung with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Mar, 1998 at 12:17 in
Population | Author:
Interim special
(Ed. note: In the February issue of The Interim, we reported an interview with U.S. pro-life activist Dan Zeidler on sterilization program abuses in Peru. Featured below is an update of the Peru situation).
On Jan. 11, 1998, The Miami Herald published a feature with the headline, “Sterilization debate in Peru: Are some women coerced?” The report described an aggressive sterilization campaign in Peru under which more than 100,000 women were ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Jan, 1998 at 7:03 in
Population | Author:
A Milwaukee-based pro-life activist has just returned from Peru with disturbing reports of a population-control program nearly out of control.
Dan Zeidler, an official with Milwaukee's Family Life Council, returned from a visit to the South American country Jan. 28.
Zeidler has long monitored population-control and sterilization programs through his association with the Latin American Alliance for the Family.
He told The Interim Jan. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 1997 at 11:10 in
Population | Author:
STAFFORD, Va. - The California legislature is considering a measure that marks a concession to the population control movement by encouraging only "wanted" pregnancies.
The U.S. Pro-life group American Life League finds the concept "extremely disturbing," said president Judie Brown. She is calling on lawmakers yo reject the proposal.
A California assembly committee was scheduled to hold hearings on SB 522 in late August. According to California Right to Life, the bill stresses ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 1997 at 8:36 in
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The charitable foundation set up by multimillionaire software magnate Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, has awarded more than $2 million to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to help develop programs to train professionals in emerging nations about population control.
The school's new Family Planning Leadership Education Institute, based in the department of population dynamics, intends to offer training for health leaders in underdeveloped nations to try to hold down birthrates in those countries.
Hopkins officials said the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 1997 at 8:08 in
Population | Author:
Camilie Charney
The Earth Summit II -- held at the United Nations in New York City from June 23 - 27 -- was viewed by environmentalists with a renewed hope and commitment to sustainable development, but after months of arduous negotiations, it was obvious that governments had paid lip service to past financial commitments and priorities for environmental protection.
Nevertheless, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Sep, 1997 at 8:04 in
Population | Author:
Camilie Charney
The Earth Summit II -- held at the United Nations in New York City from June 23 - 27 -- was viewed by environmentalists with a renewed hope and commitment to sustainable development, but after months of arduous negotiations, it was obvious that governments had paid lip service to past financial commitments and priorities for environmental protection.
Nevertheless, there was a concerted effort to proceed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 1997 at 14:27 in
Euthanasia, Issues, Population, Society & Culture | Author:
Low birth rates
“My opinion is that the drop is due to many factors: a bad economy, relatively small numbers of women at peak childbearing age, delayed marriages and the socially accepted conundrum that children are damaging to the environment and to personal happiness.” Katherine Dowling from her article “Mothers and Other Strangers.” (L.A. Times, March 3, 1994)
Handicapped are threatened
“We feel our lives threatened…We realize we cost the community a lot…Many people think we are useless…We will find it extremely ... (Continue reading)
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