ROME — Cardinal Renato Martino has denounced the involvement of UN agencies in promoting abortion, pointing out that this policy violates the agreement struck by UN member-states at the Cairo Conference of 1994.
The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace told the Italian daily Avvenire that the UN member-states have a duty to restrain the activities of agencies such as the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), and to control the expenditures of UN funds. He charged that the UNFPA is violating the terms of the Cairo agreement, which stipulated that “no UN agency can be allowed to promote abortion.”
Also, UNFPA Teams with Norwegian Abortionist Groups
OSLO — Despite its continued claims not to support abortion, the UNFPA has used two notorious Norwegian abortion-promoting organizations to launch its annual report on the State of World Population in Oslo.
The Norwegian online news magazine, Dagen, says that the launch also featured Ms. Agnete Stroem of the Women's Front who spoke about “reproductive rights,” and claimed that the Catholic Church is “murderous” in its resistance to abortion.
According to the information from Planned Parenthood International, Norway is an ideal country for the UNFPA to push its population control agenda. The country has achieved many of that agenda's goals: a birth rate well below replacement, only 1% of the female population between 15 and 19 allowing their children to live to birth and 76% of the population using contraceptives.
The Planned Parenthood country profile for Norway boasts, “The government fully supports family planning, domestically and internationally, and services are provided in Maternal and Child clinics and other health outlets free of charge. All contraceptives are widely available, and contraceptive use is high. First-trimester abortion on request is legal.”
However, the prospects for the childless future of Norway are the same as for most European countries in varying stages of demographic implosion. As in many countries, the Norwegian government is taking steps to combat the birth dearth. The government will pay parents the same amount that childcare centers or kindergartens receive in state subsidies — approximately $6,000 (US dollars) per year per child.
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(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
