Training Seminar Helps Pro-Life Advocates Reach African Americans
Dayton, OH — On October 25th and 26th, pro-life African Americans will gather in Dayton, Ohio for a special training seminar being jointly conducted by Dayton Right to Life and Right to Life of Michigan.
DRTL has been focusing on the issue of abortion in the African American community for several years and has published several brochures specifically targeted to the African American audience.
Right to Life of Michigan has produced a comprehensive training program, including a powerpoint presentation utilizing Dayton's research that will assist pro-life groups throughout the country with their African American outreach.
The conference will begin on Friday night with a Prayer Action Rally featuring Pastor Johnny Hunter, President of LEARN. Pastor Hunter of Fayetteville, NC will be joined by a number of local pastors who will in turn pray for specific life issues facing the African American community. The training sessions will be held the following day and will provide participants with the training to be effective pro-life advocates within their community.
There is no charge for the conference which will include breakfast and lunch.
“We are starting to see tremendous interest in this issue developing within the African American community. The fact that twice as many African Americans have died from abortion in the past 30 years than from all other natural causes combined is very disturbing,” said DRTL President Peggy Lehner.
While the conference is open to anyone the training materials are specifically intended to be used by African Americans. For more information about the conference please contact Dayton Right to Life at plehner@daytonrtl.org
(This article courtesy of Steven Ertelt and the Pro-Life Infonet email newsletter. For more information or to subscribe go to www.prolifeinfo.org or email infonet@prolifeinfo.org.)
Washington, DC — President Bush formally shifted $34 million Monday from the U.N. Population Fund, which he said tolerates abortions and forced sterilizations in China, to an American-run program meant to boost children's health overseas.
The administration announced the Population Fund decision in July. Bush completed the move in a memorandum Monday to Secretary of State Colin Powell. The money will now go to the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund, overseen by the State Department's Agency for International Development.
Critics of the decision said it was driven by politics and vowed to fight to ensure funding for the U.N. program. Pro-abortion Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) is trying to transfer the money back to the United Nations.
The administration insisted that the U.N. Population Fund money was being used illegally by Chinese agencies that carry out forced abortions and sterilizations. A U.S. government fact-finding team that traveled to China in May found, “The population programs of the People's Republic of China retain coercive elements in law and in practice.”
Also, the U.S. State Department gathered evidence of “social compensation fees” in UNFPA/Chinese State Family Planning Commission (SFPC) county programs and concluded that the UNFPA is helping China to “more effectively” carry out its program of forced abortion.
The team recommended that the administration release up to $34 million and that “no U.S. government funds be allocated for population programs” in China.
Last week, the UNFPA admitted that it does not monitor the 32 counties in China where it operates.
In July, a congressional committee of the Peruvian government charged that the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) supported the massive forced sterilization campaigns executed by former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori.
