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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The former director of a pro-abortion group that claims to be Catholic has endorsed Barack Obama as the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in the race. Frances Kissling, the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice, responded to a Huffington Post editorial by Ellie Smeal, Gloria Steinem and others endorsing Hillary Clinton. Kissling admitted that there is little difference between the pro-abortion policies both Democratic candidates would advance as president, and the judges they would appoint to keep abortion legal another 35 years. "I believe in the nitty gritty of a day-to-day legislative agenda, there will...

If a Democratic president enters the White House about a year from now, some experts in family planning anticipate a boon for mankind: a greater effort by the United States government to restrain world population growth. As it is, when a baby born today enters kindergarten, the number of people in the world will have grown by more than 300 million. That's on top of the 6.7 billion individuals alive today. That four-year population-growth projection is comparable to the 303 million people now living in the US – the third most populous nation in the world after China and India....

LifeNews.com Note: Samantha Singson writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a pro-life group that lobbies at the United Nation. This editorial originally appear in the group's Friday Fax publication. A new global initiative was launched by various UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in New York last week that includes a call for legal abortion. Among the sponsors of the initiative called "Deliver Now for Women and Children" is the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency that persistently denies they support abortion in any way, shape, or form. Marketed as a campaign to raise awareness of...

UNICEF Among Sponsors of New Campaign Promoting Abortion US, Canadian government development agencies among participants in campaign By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, October 4, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - A new global initiative was launched by various UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in New York last week that includes a call for legal abortion. Among the sponsors of the initiative called "Deliver Now for Women and Children" is the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency that persistently denies they support abortion in any way, shape, or form.  Marketed as a campaign to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

US Government Delegation at United Nations Scolds UN Agency for Promoting Abortion By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 13, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - The US delegation to the UN sharply scolded a top UN official this week for perpetuating the falsehood that there is a new UN mandated global goal related to "sexual and reproductive health." The exchange came during the Executive Board meeting of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The US also criticized UNFPA's promotion of abortion. UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid was presenting UNFPA's strategic plan and its proposed global and regional programs. In her report Obaid claimed "The...

Democrat Dominated US Senate Votes to Resume Funding to International Abortion Agencies President Bush has warned he would veto any attempts to fund abortion By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--The US Senate voted last week to resume funding to international groups that conduct abortions, rejecting the "Mexico City policy" that disallows such funding. Although the Bush administration hasn't made a formal statement about the measure, president Bush has publicly warned the Democratic leadership in the Congress that he will veto any attempts to fund abortion. "After witnessing their good sense on the Kemp-Kasten provision, I am extremely...

For Sixth Year in a Row Bush Denies Funding to United Nations Population Fund Democrats almost defeat Kemp-Kasten Amendment that has prohibited such funding By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WASHINGTON, September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--White house Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte announced last week that the Bush Administration would deny funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for a sixth year in a row, on the grounds that the program cooperates with forced abortion and sterilization in China. The decision follows a congressional vote narrowly approving the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, a measure that prohibits funding for coercive population control programs.  The...

Top UN Official Sadik Praises Efforts to Throw the Vatican Out of the UN Fits with her long tenure at the UN - No comment from current UN Secretary General By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 6, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - A top advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made what can only be seen as a major diplomatic blunder in an article published recently. In the article Nafis Sadik, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS, praised the campaign to have the Vatican stripped of its UN Observer status and effectively kicked out of the UN General Assembly....

Former Head of UN Population Fund Reveals Longstanding Alliance with Catholics for a Free Choice Says Catholic Church Prior to John Paul II was Easier to Work With - "With the passing of Pope Paul VI, everything became much harder" By John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, August 31, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - During her 14 years at the helm of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nafis Sadik always denied the organization's abortion advocacy even in the face of overwhelming evidence.  She did not directly name her pro-life enemies nor did she reveal her allies in the battle to establish a global...

Julio Severo Interview - Part 1 Severo tells how he became involved in pro-life and how Brazil has been changed since the late 1980s By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman See introductory story at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/aug/07082811.html SAO PAULO, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)LifeSiteNews.com: How long have you been involved in pro-life and pro-family work?  How did you get started? Julio Severo: My first contact with the pro-life message was through publications from Last Days Ministries, in 1986. Through them I learned about Americans Against Abortion (a branch of Last Days Ministries). Before, I supported abortion in cases of rape and risk of life. Later,...

Trickery and Deception Pushed Abortion-Promoting Maputo Plan Through African Union AU heads of state have never actually approved document; re-opening of discussion disallowed By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, August 23, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - In recent months abortion advocates have championed a document called the Maputo Plan of Action[2] as a regional victory in Africa in their work to achieve a universal right to abortion. While proponents of the Maputo Plan of Action present the document as a consensus document of the African Union (AU) the truth is far different. High level government officials have told the Friday Fax that AU...

UNFPA Proposes New Global Campaign to Push Reproductive Health/Abortion By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, August 10, 2007 (C-FAM) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has assessed the various regions of the world and despite differences in local circumstances, proposes that the solution is the spread of "reproductive health services," a phrase that is used by UN agencies and committees as synonymous with abortion. UNFPA recently released a proposal for a comprehensive four-year, $224 million advocacy strategy aimed at supporting and raising "awareness of reproductive rights." Claiming "the right to reproductive health applies to all people at all times," the...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Democrats in the US House of Representatives lifted a prohibition yesterday on allowing government donations of abortifacient and other contraceptives to abortion-promoting foreign aid organizations. President Bush has twice said he will veto any legislation that weakens protection for life in the Mexico City Policy. The policy dates to the Reagan administration and prohibits any funding for any purpose to abortion providers in developing countries. The amendment passed by a vote of 223-201, with 207 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting to allow the contraceptive funding. Rep. Nita Lowey, the New York Democrat who wrote...

Dear Colleague: The extinguishing of a people does not have to be done with troops or death camps. Isn't it genocide to indoctrinate into the contraceptive mentality the youth of a small nation with a low birthrate? Kinder, Gentler Genocide in Mongolia, Joseph A. D'Agostino It is often useful to examine the front page of a major newspaper or home page of a website just to see what is being presented and how. Watching solely the front page of a major newspaper could, over time, tell you the most important biases and lies in which that newspaper engages. Similarly, watching...

MATTRAI, Pakistan, February 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young woman was raped by three men in retribution for refusing to perform illegal abortions in a rural community in the western Punjab last Wednesday.Rubina Kousar, 26, worked as a nurse in the Mattrai health center. She refused to carry out abortions on two women, reported the Telegraph, despite six months of constant pressure from the women’s families.“In the past our staff have been subjected to this type of victimization for refusing to carry out illegal abortions, but they have not raised their voices for fear of retribution,” said Riaz Hussein,...

NEW YORK, February 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The executive board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) last week approved the sixth UNFPA programme of assistance to China, totalling $27 million over five years. Last September, the United States denied, for the fourth straight year, funding to the UN agency over its support of China's coercive population program. US law prohibits the country from contributing to any organization that participates in coercive abortion - a practice widely acknowledged in Communist-ruled China. Independent investigations have found evidence of UNFPA's collusion in the coercive Chinese program. A recent Amnesty International report (...

However, in March of that very same year Japan Bishops' Conference had sent a memorandum to Rome. Obviously it was the answer to the enquiry conducted by the Papal Commission on Family, which was established in 1963 during Vat II by Pope John XXIII to consider problems of family, population, and birth-rate. It was continued under Pope Paul VI and came to consist of cardinals, bishops, population experts, physicians, married couples. I was able to obtain a copy of this memorandum. It is written in impeccable Latin but its content is not without fault. In it, the Japanese bishops said...

Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- Chinese attorneys are risking their own freedom by pressing for the release of an activist against forced abortions detained by local officials in the eastern Chinese city of Linyi. They have released an open letter calling for authorities to release Chen Guangcheng, who has been under house arrest for the last month after exposing the brutal forced abortion and sterilization tactics of population control officials. The letter comes at a time when Chen may be charged with passing on government secrets because of an interview he conducted with Time magazine about the scandal. Chen said that...

WASHINGTON, September 19, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has once again denied the controversial United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) financial backing – for the fourth year running, despite assurances from the UNFPA that it is not involved in coercive abortion in China. The UNFPA would normally receive $34 million; instead, $25 million will be redirected to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). US law prohibits the country from contributing to any organization that participates in coercive abortion – a practice widely acknowledged in Communist-ruled China. Despite alleging that they have no participation in this practice – as a...

Two recent publications circulating at the United Nations demonstrate a growing focus on young people as a way of advancing the abortion agenda. The reports, one by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and another by a radical lobby group, both call for a greater focus on the "sexual and reproductive" rights of youth, a term that UN agencies frequently misinterpret as including abortion. Youth are defined in the UNFPA report as "aged 10 to 24 years." UNFPA's report, entitled "The Case for Investing in Young People as part of a National Poverty Reduction Strategy," states that "UNFPA's mandate [is]...

Dear Colleague:   Once again the Philippines, a country with a living Christian culture, is under attack for having too many children.  The population controllers are attempting to impose a two-child policy on the relatively pro-life, pro-family Filipinos, who now average less than three children.  But Filipinos and Americans of Filipino descent are organizing and, at the endof this article, there is a way to help them.   Steven W. MosherPresident PRI Weekly Briefing15 July 2005Vol. 7 / No. 27   Population Controllers Target One of the Last Pro-Family Christian NationsBy Joseph A. D'Agostino The Philippines is one of the last...

ROMA, July 7, 2005 – The Organization of the United Nations turned 60 years old at the end of June. But the administration of George W. Bush celebrated this in its own way: for the fourth year in a row, it denied payment of the 34 million dollars previously given to the UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The reason: the anti-life policies that the UNFPA finances in China, supporting male and female sterilization and forced abortion for handicapped and excess children. With the 34 million dollars that it has saved, the Bush administration will finance medical assistance programs for...

New York, Jun. 09 (C-fam.org/CWNews.com) - With a draft outcome document having been presented to countries this Monday, negotiations over the United Nations' Millennium+5 Summit are intensifying. Now the Council of the European Union has released a document strongly supporting the integration of veiled references to legalized abortion in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and vowing to promote this agenda at September's summit. On May 24, the EU released its "Council conclusions: Accelerating progress towards achieving the millennium development goals." The document outlines the EU's "positions and specific commitments" regarding the summit's outcome. The summit will review progress on the...

During the last three decades, the issue of overpopulation - or perceived overpopulation - has been discussed in various capacities. The primary instigators of these discussions have been the radical environmentalists, the radical animal rights activists, and certain wealthy elites in our Western society. All of these groups more or less assert that human beings are destroying the planet. There are too many of us, they say. Hence, we must utilize “family planning” (read: abortion, contraception, sterilization), even in a coercive manner, to limit the number of people born into the world. As a result of this elitist, anti-life mentality,...

Today's Friday Fax reports that the UNFPA has gotten the obvious, that women killing their babies has nothing to do with maternal mortality, certainly not anything that would LOWER it. ============================= Friday Fax April 22, 2005 Volume 8, Number 18 UN Admits that Access to Abortion Not Effective at Reducing Maternal Mortality Earlier this month, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report on maternal mortality around the world. The report shows that the most important means of reducing maternal mortality is the presence of a skilled birth attendant with access to adequate emergency obstetrical care. The report...

IT IS high time men came out of their cocoon shells and report all cases of harassment perpetrated on them by their partners. There has been a steady increase of men who have been taking their lives following harassment and violence by their partners. The unfortunate development comes against a campaign by some civic organisations that indicate 99 percent of women are survivors of gender based violence in this country. These statistics are however as of 1996. It is however apparent that the situations could have changed as reports on violence against men continue to be highlighted in the Press....

...on condoms, that is.Thoraya Obaid, director of the United Nations Population Fund, told Reuters on the sidelines of an aid conference:"There has been a beginning of an opening, especially on HIV/AIDS and the use of condoms for prevention of infection," . "We are hoping the new pope will take this message further, because it makes no sense sending people to their death." "We hope that all positions would focus on what is really needed to fight ... HIV and take the morally correct decision on how to do that," Obaid said.Commentary. Well well well. What is this "sending people to...

Abortion Politics at the United Nations By Joseph A. D'Agostino NEW YORK CITY--Abortion politics pops up everywhere. All this week at United Nations headquarters, the UN Commission on Population and Development is meeting to discuss strategy in combating HIV/AIDS. As one speaker at the conference put it, AIDS has afflicted so many people in some developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, that "HIV/AIDS is no longer only a public health issue, but a population and economic development issue as well." With HIV adult infection rates at 10%, 20%, or even over 30% in some sub-Saharan African countries, the AIDS epidemic...

A UN women's conference approved an American-drafted resolution on economic equality that the United States ended up opposing because of an amendment on "reproductive rights". "This amendment is not acceptable to the United States," said US delegate Ellen Sauerbrey on the final day of the two-week meeting. "We worked very hard during the course of negotiations to arrive at language that was broad and was acceptable to most delegations." After Cuba successfully amended the resolution with a reference to a possible negative impact on women from globalisation, Ms Sauerbrey offered to withdraw the text. But the 45-member Commission on the...

Another U.S. Withdrawal at the United Nations? Leaders to Bush Admin.: U.S. Must Reaffirm Historic Women's Human Rights Agreement 2/25/2005 12:15:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Nancy Bennett, 800-834-1110, or Ketayoun Darvich-Kodjouri, 202-326-8720 WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Leaders from human rights and women's development organizations are sounding the alarm about the possible U.S. withdrawal from a historic women's human rights agreement currently under review at the United Nations. Governments are gathering in New York City over the next two weeks to revisit women's progress since the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women met in Beijing in...

BARRIE, ON, February 3, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canadian International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll is a Roman Catholic. She has let it be known publicly that she will be voting for the government's gay 'marriage' legislation which all Canadian Catholic bishops have opposed. Moreover, Ms. Carroll is the Minister who, during U.S. President Bush's recent visit to Canada, embarrassed many Canadians by announcing that Canada would boost its funding of the UNFPA , the UN population control arm. Prior to this, an investigation by the US Department of Justice had found UNFPA was still complicit in China's coercive abortion program. The...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The issue of abortion could tie up a bill intended to fund relief efforts for victims of the tsunami and earthquake in Southeast Asia. Noting that there are an estimated 150,000 pregnant women living in the numerous areas affected by the tsunami who need medical care and attention, abortion advocates claim the UNFPA is the only agency that can help them. Pro-abortion New York Democratic congressmen Steve Israel and Joseph Crowley want the United States to use taxpayer funds to support the United Nations outfit. "Fifty thousand of those women will give birth in three months,...

U.N. Offers 'Reproductive' Aid to Tsunami Victims by Stuart Shepard, correspondent What kind of aid is headed for Southeast Asia? The United Nations has some strange ideas on what those affected need. What kind of help does Southeast Asia need to recover from the tidal wave that swamped the region and killed tens of thousands? It's likely your list won't include condoms and portable abortion devices—but that's part of the aid being sent by the United Nations. The United Nations Population Fund, known as UNFPA, has requested $28 million for tsunami assistance, part of which will go toward what it...

As donations from around the world pour into Asia to provide food, water, and medical supplies in the wake of the tsunami disaster, the United Nations is rushing condoms and other "necessities" to the victims. "Free condoms are among the first reproductive health supplies to reach people caught in a crisis situation...UNFPA provides both male and female condoms in emergencies," boasts the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA). According to Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, the United Nations Population Fund is requesting $28 million for "the reestablishment of basic reproductive health services." This will be accomplished...

NEW YORK, January 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations Population Fund, the UNFPA, is calling for US $28 million in donations to re-establish "reproductive health services," in the Tsunami-stricken regions of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, according to a UNFPA press release published Thursday. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute Friday Fax further clarified that "According to UNFPA's Reproductive Health in Emergency Situations manual, the 'reproductive health needs' of refugees include 'guaranteeing the availability of free condoms.' Indeed," the C-FAM Friday Fax continues, "UNFPA's website says that 'Free condoms are among the first reproductive health supplies to...

UNFPA Elusive About Abortion Aid for Tsunami Victims The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) describes itself as the "largest international public sector supplier of contraceptives, condoms and other reproductive health essentials," and states that such supplies are "critical to protecting reproductive health in emergency situations." Yet in press releases on its tsunami relief activities, UNFPA steers clear of directly stating that it provides contraceptives or abortion aids. UNFPA may be responding to past public criticism after disclosures that it was providing such supplies. In its January 6 press release, the latest and most explicit to date, UNFPA has requested $28 million...

Tsunami Aid Lands for Survivors and Unborn Babies Sat Jan 1, 2005 09:40 AM ET By Michael Perry BANGKOK (Reuters) - A multinational force of aid workers, military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami relief pledges topped $1.85 billion, but the hundreds of tons of aid created a logistical nightmare. The hardest part still proved to be getting aid from clogged airports out to areas rendered barely accessible by the destruction of roads, phones, boats and harbors -- but some aid was finally getting through Saturday, six days on. With airports under strain, Australian military transports had...

Perhaps frustrated, together with France and Kofi Annan, with its inability to influence American foreign policy, Canada’s government decided to increase sharply its annual contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The official announcement of the increase just happened to coincide with President George W. Bush’s visit to America’s small northern neighbor. Canada has chosen to ignore the evidence of China’s coercive population control program and UNFPA’s assistance to it — or perhaps she doesn’t care. This Tuesday, December 14, the House International Relations Committee under the guidance of Rep. Chris Smith (R — NJ) will hear new testimony...

WASHINGTON, November 25, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Congress allocated its perfunctory annual $34 million contribution to the United Nations Family Planning Fund (UNFPA) -- President Bush is expected, however, to countermand the contribution, as he has done for the previous four years. US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, corroborated evidence unearthed by the Population Research Institute, that the UNFPA actively participated in China's implementation of its one-child policy, including coerced abortion. The UNFPA's involvement in coerced abortion makes any US contribution to their work illegal, based on the Kemp-Kasten law, which prohibits contributions to any agency that "supports or participates in...

Why is Bush getting the bishop's blessing? Thursday, October 14, 2004 NEWARK'S ARCHBISHOP John Myers wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal last month on why Catholics cannot in good conscience vote for a pro-choice candidate. It was titled "A Voter's Guide."Myers wrote that abortion and research that destroys human embryos are evil and that no other issue outweighs that evil in this presidential race: not the death penalty, poverty, or the war in Iraq.The archbishop did not name names, but his message is clear: Catholics can't vote for John Kerry. Since Catholics make up one-quarter of the...

Bush Once Again Blocks US Funds to Pro-Abortion UNFPA WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For the fourth consecutive year of his presidency, U.S. President George W. Bush has refused the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, its designated annual US government contribution. The $25 million normally earmarked for the organization was diverted by the president into a State Department initiative against human trafficking and prostitution. The UNFPA support for coerced abortion contravenes a U.S. law that prohibeted any funding of abortion supporting organizations. The UNFPA has been actively supporting, through funding and training, China's one-child policy, which involves forced abortion....

Dear readers: Having received this newsletter, I felt it was appropriate to correct the misconceptions about the UN therein. I write not to incite but simply to educate. We are fortunate to live in a country where people are free to share their views and to discuss them. Having interned at the UN, studied at the UN in Geneva Switzerland, having worked with a leading, global, non-governmental maternal and child health organization and having traveled extensively through and lived in the "developing world", I must categorically refute the insinuation that the UN promotes abortion. I am referring to the statement:...

Vatican Officials Say Pro-abortion Efforts Violate International Pacts ROME, SEPT. 16, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official appealed to governments to remind them of their duty to denounce U.N. agencies that go against international agreements by promoting abortion. The appeal by Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was supported by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent observer to the U.N. offices in Geneva. It took place after the presentation Wednesday of a report of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). Against numerous studies that point to a worrying "demographic winter," the UNFPA report continues to...

BOSTON -- Sen. John Kerry's sister assured a rally of feminist Democrats here yesterday that her brother will name several pro-choice justices to the Supreme Court if elected president.     "There are three things my brother is going to do when he's elected president," Peggy Kerry told a Boston event held yesterday at the Harvard Club by the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Feminist Majority.     Mr. Kerry will restore $34 billion to the United Nation's population fund for family planning, she pledged, and the Democrat will make sure that "CEDAW," an international treaty to eliminate discrimination against women, is...

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration yesterday announced it will withhold a $34 million payment from the United Nations Population Fund to China over the issue of forced abortions. The Communist government of China maintains, at least in some areas of the country, a one-child policy sometimes enforced through a policy of forced abortions. It is believed China performs some 10 million involuntary abortions a year. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the U.S. is the world's largest donor to health programs for women and children, to the tune of $1.8 billion this year, of which over $400 million is for...

The US State Department has announced it is withholding $34m (£18m) allocated to the UN Population Fund. State Department officials said the decision was taken because of an ongoing row about the fund's support for China's family planning programmes. The US says there is a direct link between the UN fund's work and the Chinese practice of forced abortion - an allegation the UN denies. This is the third consecutive year the money has been withheld. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the administration had no choice. The Congress-approved payment was not possible under US law because of a direct...

US Cuts Funds to UN Population Fund Agency Over 'Coercive' Policy by China By David Gollust VOA News Jul 17, 2004 US Cuts Funds to UN Population Fund Agency Over 'Coercive' Policy by China By David Gollust VOA News STATE DEPARTMENT – The Bush administration said Friday it is again withholding money from the United Nations Population Fund over charges that the U.N. agency supports, at least indirectly, Chinese population policies that include coercive abortion. Opponents of the decision say it is driven by election campaign considerations by the White House. The administration decision, conveyed in a message to Congress...

U.S. to Withhold $34M to U.N. Fund By BARRY SCHWEID The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will withhold $34 million in congressionally approved assistance to the U.N. Population Fund because of the fund's connection to China and forced abortions, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday. The State Department said it was convinced the fund helped China manage programs that involved forced abortions. Powell said in a letter to Congress that the administration would continue to help women and children around the world through other programs. The fund called the U.S. allegation baseless. "UNFPA has not, does not and...

Multilateralism -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leaning to the right Leader Wednesday July 7, 2004 The Guardian When the US fundamentalists flex their muscles, the rest of the world gets hit. Their latest punching bag is the United Nations Population Fund, known as the UNFPA, which has received a series of body blows from the Bush administration since 2002. With presidential elections looming in November, Washington has stepped up its attacks on the UNFPA in its quest for a few votes more. It wasn't enough that the Bush administration cut off its annual funding to the UNFPA and took support away from its partner,...

Bush Administration Frustrating U.N. Population Control Advocates WASHINGTON, June 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.net) - Disgruntled U.N. officials and population control advocates have expressed indignation with the Bush administration's increased efforts to cut all funding to the United Nations Population Fund, the population control wing of the United Nations which has been implicated in human rights abuses in China involving coerced abortion and sterilization. The critics, many of them speaking anonymously because the U.S. is the leading contributor of their agencies, complained that the administration's efforts are undermining their advances in "family planning" around the world. Sterling Scruggs, a former official in...