Posted on 05/20/2002 12:19:00 PM PDT by kattracks
In today's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports that eight days ago the Post ran an op-ed piece by one Philip Harvey, whom it identified as "a writer and businessman."
Harvey, Kurtz revealed, argued that abstinence programs are unrealistic and that young adults should not be deprived of sex.
In a Washington Times "Gotcha" piece, the Times later revealed that Harvey is indeed a businessman - he's the founder of Adam & Eve, one of the nation's biggest mail-order purveyors of erotic videos, sex toys and contraceptives.
At the U.N. recently, one of the groups most critical of the United States and other governments holding pro-life positions at the recent United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly on Children designs, manufactures and sells abortion equipment throughout the world, writes Austin Ruse, head of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, a group that monitors the U.N.
Ruse identified the group as Ipas, and notes it "had a marked presence at the conference where its members wore bright green shirts that called for reproductive rights for children."
He adds that "Ipas members also disrupted the daily U.S. sponsored NGO briefings. Ipas representatives held up signs reading 'Shame,' frequently interrupted U.S. briefers and spoke over them as they attempted to answer questions. Ipas members were incensed because the U.S. fought to remove reference to 'reproductive health services' from the outcome document on children. At another NGO briefing, an Ipas member asked a U.S. delegate how the U.S. could side with the 'Axis of Evil' and the 'child-rapists' of the Catholic Church, instead of with its 'natural allies' within the European Union.
"Ipas seems to be in the business of promoting abortion. Its website describes, 'The global need for better access to safe, high-quality, elective abortion services is tremendous.' Ipas fills this need through the distribution of the device known as the manual vacuum aspirator (MVA), a portable abortion device that can be used in refugee tents. Ipas has produced and sold MVAs since 1973, and claims MVAs 'could lead to a revolutionary increase in access to early abortion services.' Ipas described their product as a technology that is 'simple and remarkably easy to learn and use.'"
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