Peru Being Illegally Targeted for Abortion by USAID


FRONT ROYAL — Ten Peruvian Congressmen have written a letter to USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios charging the United States Aid agency with conniving to change Peru's laws to allow abortion. Mexico City Policy prevents U.S. family planning funds from being used to promote, perform, or lobby for the legalization of abortion. The accusation has been denied by USAID, but the letter cited actions by that organization that proves the allegation beyond any doubt, giving names and dates.

“Peru is a democratic country, with a constitution that protects human life from conception and strong pro-life laws,” says the letter. The letter gives details saying that on October 11, 2003, “USAID/Peru funded an event at which the legalization of surgical abortion was promoted. USAID/Peru supported this political lobbying event at which surgical abortion was promoted in word and in legislative text drafted to legalize abortion in Peru. USAID/Peru later misrepresented this text to be a mere summary of international documents; this summary, however, contains explicit references to abortion nowhere found in international documents and designed to promote the legalization of abortion in Peru.”

The Family Research Council says that Peru is one country that has been especially singled out by population controllers for coercive measures such as forced sterilization and strong-arm political tactics.

Peru seems to be a favorite target of concerted international efforts to sterilize and abort their people. In 2002, the British aid agency, the Department of International Development (DFID), headed by Clare Short, an abortion activist, offered Peru a $24-million-dollar grant entitled “Improving the Health of the Poor: A Human Rights Focus,” that had as a major focus the implementation of population control.

The Population Research Institute (PRI), an organization dedicated to dispelling the myth of overpopulation and to protecting individuals and countries from being targeted, wrote in a recent news release “the funding of this conference, and of organizations that are pushing for abortion on demand in Peru, is a blatant violation of U.S. law.” Says Steven Mosher, of PRI, the speakers at the conference did not try to hide their intention regarding Peru's laws. One speaker said, “the other matter we must acknowledge [about abortion] is that of illegality. We must finally recognize that — and fortunately it does happen — the law is changeable.”

See also:

Population Research Institute Weekly News Briefing

Also, UNESCO About-Face: Directive Ends Support and Promotion of Abortion

NEW YORK — The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute's (C-FAM) Friday Fax revealed recently that the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — historically radically pro-abortion in its directive — is taking an about-face on its abortion policy. The memo, released by Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, “promised to make substantial internal reforms to ensure that its publishing offices around the globe no longer produce documents endorsing abortion rights.”

The reversal seems to be the result of a letter written in January by Tommy Thompson, Secretary of US Health and Human Services (HHS), to Matsuura voicing Bush administration displeasure with some UNESCO documents, especially a document entitled Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion. The document, co-released by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) late last year, called for abortion to be made available without restriction to all women, especially to adolescent girls, and for all abortions to be paid for by local governments. The document also called for the removal of all parental notification and consent laws for ensuring underage access to abortion.

C-FAM reports that “In response, Matsuura admitted in a letter to Thompson that Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion contained 'material that is not in line with our policies or mandate.' Matsuura therefore 'instructed the Bangkok Office to withdraw the document and remove it from the Internet.'”

A search of the UNESCO-Bangkok website confirms that the document has been removed. Furthermore, Matsuura forwarded Thompson an internal memo issued to UNESCO deputies in which he states, “My attention has been drawn to certain co-publications that could give the impression that UNESCO has a mandate or issues recommendations in the area of abortion. I therefore wish to recall to your attention that abortion, and abortion-related issues, do not come within the mandate of UNESCO. As UNESCO does not promote abortion, and no funds are given by Member States to be spent on abortion-related activities or materials, I ask you to ensure that UNESCO's policy in this area is not misrepresented, in particular through publications and co-publications.”

See also:

UNESCO Pledges End to Support and Promotion of Abortion

UNESCO Calls Abortion on Demand “Proper” Medical Procedure for Girls

Vatican Blasts UN Promotion Of Abortion

(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)

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