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UN agency criticised for placing abortion before development

by Lawrence Jones, Christian Today US Correspondent
Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2008, 7:52 (GMT)
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"UNFPA's agenda is the same as that of Planned Parenthood. If it could, it would locate a condom dispensary in every school and neighbourhood in the Third World," added Carlson.

In recent years, the UN agency has come under scrutiny from the US Government and Britain for working with countries like China which reportedly forces abortions on women as part of the nation's family planning.

For that reason, the Bush Administration has withheld funds - a total of $195 million to date - from the UNFPA since 2002, citing the 1985 Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which states no federal funds may go to any organisation that "supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization".

The UNFPA has also been charged with promoting forced sterilisation in Peru, where indigenous women were sterilised without their consent or were bribed into undergoing the procedure for bags of groceries, according to The New York Times.

UNFPA denies that it supports coercive programmes in China and claims to be "abortion neutral". In its annual report, the agency stated it promotes "family planning as a means to reduce unsafe abortions".

Pro-family and anti-abortion advocates, however, say that the term "unsafe abortions" is used by the agency to described "illegal abortions", indicating that legal abortions would be considered valid means of reproductive health services supported by the agency.

The WCF is an international network of pro-family organisations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the "seedbed" of civil society. The network is a project of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, which is based in Rockford, Illinois.

At WCF's fourth meeting last May, pro-family advocates adopted the Warsaw Declaration, which stated that "the future of humanity passes by way of the family" and that such families accept "joyful responsibility for every child-to-be, versus the fear of the child expressed in the contraceptive mentality".



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