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Wednesday September 15, 2004
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UNFPA Sings the Usual Tune: More Abortion, Sterilization, Condoms in Third World or Planet is Doomed
NEW YORK, September 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations Population Fund has released its annual 'State of World Population' report. The UNFPA's indomitable thesis is that world population is growing beyond the capacity to produce food and that more contraception and abortion is needed to safeguard women's 'rights' in the developing world. Despite the growing alarm at the dropping birth rate and the greying workforce in most countries, the UNFPA continues to say that 'universal access' to contraception and abortion "is an essential condition for meeting the UN's Millennium Development Goals to reduce global poverty by 2015."
They also highlight a policy shift that emphasizes the same rampant individualism that has created many of the internal social problems in the developed nations. Their argument is that women must have access to the workforce and the 'right' to abandon family life in order to enjoy their "rights and equality and individual choice," in their lives. This essential premise of feminism has become the accepted wisdom of North America and Europe where the dropping birth rate, the 50% divorce rate and escalating rates of violent crime among teenagers has given social scientists pause.
The UNFPA continues to insist that AIDS and the plague of new STD's can only be stopped with increased 'reproductive and sexual health information and services." This is contradicted by the actual results of public sex-ed programmes in developed countries where the rate of teenage pregnancy and abortion has skyrocketed, and as many as 30 new sexually transmitted diseases have come into existence since 1965.
Deciphering UN-Speak is a full time occupation for pro-life lobbyists at the UN. They have made progress in exposing some of the euphemisms commonly in use in UNFPA documents. 'Reproductive Rights' and "family planning services' refer to abortion, contraception and sterilization. The report complains that as many as 350 million couples in the world "still lack access to a full range of family planning services." It goes on to connect this with the high rates of maternal mortality and AIDS. Nothing is said of the highly successful campaigns in African countries endorsing abstinence and fidelity in marriage in dramatically reducing the rates of AIDS.
UNFPA Press Release:
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2004/presskit/docs/release1.doc
See previous LifeSiteNews.com reports:
LifeSiteNews.com Special Report on Population Control:
http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inher...
UNITED NATIONS MEETING TO ADDRESS "MAJOR IMPLICATIONS" OF WORLD "POPULATION DECLINE"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/mar/02030602.html
UN WARNS OF BELOW REPLACEMENT FERTILITY LEVELS
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/feb/03022703.html
UN REPORT TO SHOW FERTILITY RATES WORLDWIDE TO DROP TO BELOW REPLACEMENT
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/feb/03020402.html
Most Major Industrial Countries Unprepared for Coming Population Ageing Crisis and Labour Shortage
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jan/04012801.html
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