Meeting in London discusses how to make abortion an international right

Dear Colleague,

We report today on an amazing meeting that happened this week in London.
Timothy Wirth, former US Senator and official at the US State Department,
said the Bush administration may be guilty of crimes against humanity for
its work on HIV/Aids in Africa. Present was Thoraya Obaid of UNFPA.

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Yours truly,

Austin Ruse
President
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427
New York, New York 10017
Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291
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FRIDAY FAX

September 3, 2004
Volume 7, Number 37

Meeting in London discusses how to make abortion an international right

Pro-abortion government and non-governmental leaders met in London
this week to discuss the tenth anniversary of the 1994 International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The meeting devolved into
attacks on the Bush administration. Present was Thoraya Obaid, head of the
UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

The president of Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation, Timothy
Wirth, even discussed whether the Bush administration was guilty of
"crimes against humanity," because it encourages abstinence training to
prevent the spread of AIDS. According to Wirth, "the United States and
others have started questioning the efficacy of condoms. To condemn women
by indifference to science and by failure to provide tools for their own
protection may not meet the technical definition of crimes against
humanity but it is certainly gross negligence toward humanity."

During the meeting, called "Countdown 2015," Steven Sinding,
Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
(IPPF), proclaimed that a major goal of the attendees of the conference,
including presumably the UN and EU officials, was the expansion of legal
abortion.

According to Sinding, "IPPF and the people at this conference
believe that the abortion provisions of the ICPD did not go far enough in
calling for universal access to safe legal abortion. While we strongly
believe in eliminating unwanted pregnancies, we recognize that they cannot
be eliminated altogether. We believe the time has come to press ahead, to
reinforce a global movement to ensure that every woman in every country
has access to safe abortion services when she needs them."

Sinding also criticized the Bush administration for its program to
address HIV/AIDS in Africa, stating that, "Simplistic approaches like the
Bush administration's interpretation of 'ABC' [Abstain, Be faithful, or
use Condoms] gain legitimacy despite the fact that they are generated by
people with no understanding of sexual behavior or science." Sinding did
not address the fact that the US under the Bush administration is the
largest funder in history to the prevention and treatment of AIDS in
Africa, or that a growing number of scientists now consider Uganda's
abstinence program to be the most effective AIDS program in Sub-Saharan
Africa.

The meeting ended with the promulgation of the "Declaration of the
Global Roundtable," which called for governments to "guarantee the rights
of people irrespective of.gender identity or sexual orientation." The
Declaration also stated that, "We want a world where women and girls have
access to safe and legal abortion."

Dr. Lieve Fransen, head of the European Commission's human and
social development unit and the top EU AIDS official, welcomed the
Declaration, stating that he "will take your recommendations to the
European Council of Ministers in the fall where [UNFPA Executive Director]
Thoraya Obaid will be invited for the discussion."

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Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 427
New York, New York 10017
Phone: (212) 754-5948 Fax: (212) 754-9291
E-mail: c-fam@c-fam.org Website: www.c-fam.org

These people really do make me sick...Attempting to enshrine the horrific murderous crime of abortion as a "human right" is utterly demonic. The extent to which these people lie and distort the truth demonstrates that their thinking is a product of Satan himself - my, how proud he must be of his followers!

The demented logic of equating "abstinence" education to prevent AIDS with "crimes against humanity is to be expected from people like this. I often wonder how they would react if they were asked if it would be OK to abort them at this stage of their lives?

Pray for them and, especially pray for those they wish to murder!