Giornata mondiale contro la popolazione - di Tommaso Scandroglio

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L'11 luglio cade la Giornata Mondiale per la Popolazione e l’United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – l’organismo dell’ONU che da sempre diffonde il verbo abortista e contraccettivo nel mondo -  mette quest’anno il focus sulle gravidanze delle adolescenti. Nel messaggio introduttivo il direttore esecutivo Babatunde Osotimehin scrive: “Senza dubbio le gravidanze mettono in pericolo i diritti, la salute, l’educazione e le potenzialità di quelle adolescenti che sono ancora bambine privandole di un futuro migliore”. Ciò a dire che un bambino che viene al mondo è un ostacolo alla propria realizzazione personale. “Complicanze nella gravidanza o nel parto – continua Osotimehin - sono la causa principale [sic] della morte delle ragazze in questa età, specialmente nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Le gravidanze delle adolescenti non sono solo una questione che attiene alla salute, ma è una questione di sviluppo. Queste ragazze sono radicate nella povertà, nella disuguaglianza di genere, nella violenza, vi sono matrimoni forzati di ragazzine, disequilibrio di potere tra le ragazze adolescenti e i loro pari età maschi, mancanza di educazione e il fallimento dei sistemi sociali e delle istituzioni per tutelare i loro diritti. Porre fine alle gravidanze nelle adolescenti richiede un impegno da parte delle nazioni, delle comunità locali e delle singole persone, tanto nei paesi in via di sviluppo come in quelli già sviluppati al fine di investire nelle ragazze adolescenti”.

Insomma per il direttore dell’UNFPA il male assoluto per le adolescenti sono le gravidanze sia quelle indesiderate che quelle volute, male da sradicare sempre e comunque. Da qui la soluzione: “Agli adolescenti e giovani si deve offrire un’educazione integrale sulla sessualità, appropriata alla loro età, al fine di sviluppare la conoscenza e le capacità che sono necessarie per proteggere la loro salute nell’arco di tutta la vita. Senza dubbio l’educazione e l’informazione non sono sufficienti. I servizi di salute riproduttiva di buona qualità (leggi “aborto e contraccezione”) devono essere facilmente accessibili per gli adolescenti. […] A livello locale le comunità devono offrire le infrastrutture necessarie e adatte ai giovani per l’assistenza alla salute riproduttiva”. A fronte di quanto affermato da Osotimehin forse sarebbe meglio chiamare questa giornata non Giornata Mondiale per la Popolazione, ma Giornata Mondiale contro la Popolazione.

Stessa musica si è ascoltata dal 7 al 10 luglio a Noordwijk, nei Paesi Bassi, dove si è svolta l’ultima Conferenza Internazionale su Popolazione e Sviluppo promossa sempre dall’UNPFA ed anche dal governo dei Paesi Bassi e dall’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i diritti umani. Presenti i rappresentanti di 126 paesi. La Conferenza fa parte del progetto dell’ONU in merito alla verifica e revisione degli obiettivi posti dal Programma d’Azione del Cairo del 1994. Le sessioni plenarie si sono incentrate su questi temi: il genere, la discriminazione in ogni suo ambito, la salute sessuale e riproduttiva, i diritti riproduttivi, la mortalità materna, l’accesso alla pianificazione familiare, l’accesso all’aborto sicuro laddove è legale.

Aborto e contraccezione sono le due parole d’ordine che gli organismi internazionali, le lobby di potere e non pochi governi stanno ripetendo ad alta voce in ogni occasione, opportuna o non opportuna. Ad esempio dal 30 giugno al 3 luglio si è svolta a Kuala Lumpur, in Malesia, la VII International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis Treatment and Prevention. C’erano i rappresentanti del capitalismo mondiale: Bill Gates, Andrew Carnegie, magnate delle ferrovie; il petroliere della Standard Oil John Rockefeller; Henry Ford; John Kellogg, il re dei cereali. Poi Cecile Richards, presidente della Planned Parenthood Federation of America (di cui Gates senior fu uno dei fondatori); l’International Pregnancy Advisory Service; la Global Fund for Women e poi ancora l’immancabile e già citato Babatunde Osotemehin e il bioeticista Peter Singer. Tutti filo abortisti e tutti con diritto di parola.

La conferenza sull’AIDS è stato il paravento dietro cui lanciare nuovi progetti abortisti. Ad esempio negli “eventi collaterali” è stata inserita una tavola rotonda organizzata dalla Post Abortion Care Consortium, la quale è una rete di quattro agenzie abortiste: la Planned Parenthood, la Pathfinder, l’IPA e le Jhpiego, quest’ultima specializzata nel diffondere l’aborto chimico tra i giovani.  Interessante poi una sessione ospitata dall’ International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Gynuity Health che aveva questo titolo “Misoprostolo e la cura delle emorragia post-partum”. Jill Sheffield fondatrice della Women Deliver - lobby abortista che ha tenuto il suo congresso internazionale sempre a Kuala Lumpur qualche giorno prima - ha affermato che questo farmaco è una delle scoperte “più eccitanti” nel campo della salute riproduttiva. L’OMS ha inserito questo preparato nella lista dei farmaci essenziali, però ha anche ammesso che tale farmaco è sì importante per fermare l’emorragia ma funziona meglio l’ossitocina. L’intento in realtà è quello di usarlo per finalità abortive. E infatti un’altra sessione dal titolo “Aborto sicuro” è stata dedicata ad “Accesso al misoprostolo per l’aborto nelle comunità locali e strategie pratiche di difesa”: la sessione è stata organizzata da Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes and Population Council. Il direttore di Jhpiego, il dott. Harshad Sanghvi, ha reso noto che la sua agenzia ha formato “operatori analfabeti presso le varie comunità locali” di Africa e Asia per individuare le donne in gravidanza, dare loro il preparato affinchè poi loro stesse – forse durante la stessa gravidanza così da provocare l’aborto – si somministrino il preparato. Gran parte della ricerca su questo preparato è stata finanziata dalla Fondazione Gates.

Sempre a Kuala Lumpur la rappresentante dell’United States Agency for International Development, Judy Manning, ha dichiarato che “agenzie per la salute riproduttiva”, ricercatori, imprese biotech, agenzie di finanziamento pubbliche e private come la Fondazione Gates hanno lavorato dal 2009 sulle nanotecnologie per fornire “vaccini polivalenti” e combinazioni di farmaci per mettere a punto una “suite” di prodotti contraccettivi efficaci per tutto l’arco di una vita della donna. Ha esemplificato parlando di “anelli vaginali” e “ormoni iniettabili a lunga durata”. Il tutto assomiglia ad una campagna per la sterilizzazione di massa tramite “vaccini”. Che la Conferenza sull’AIDS sia solo un pretesto per sdoganare l’aborto nel mondo è stato poi confermato dalla Manning stessa la quale ha affermato che si stanno mettendo a punto vaccini e farmaci per "prevenire contemporaneamente la gravidanza, l’HIV, HSV-2 e l’ HPV che causano il cancro cervicale." Insomma per questi signori la gravidanza è una patologia ed una patologia grave tanto quanto l’AIDS e il cancro.

In un’altra sessione dedicata al tema “Bisogno insoddisfatto di contraccezione” Melinda Gates, moglie di Bill, ha fatto sapere che la Fondazione Gates ha finora raccolto 2,6 miliardi di dollari da destinare a campagne contraccettive. L’obiettivo è arrivare a 6 miliardi entro il 2020 per distribuire 120 milioni di contraccettivi nei paesi poveri. A margine ricordiamo che la Fondazione Gates ha finora raccolto 4 miliardi di dollari per finanziare le attività di organizzazioni abortiste nei paesi in via di sviluppo. La Fondazione sovvenziona soprattutto Planned Parenthood, Care International, Save the Children, Marie Stopes e l’Unpfa. La signora Gates, che da sempre si è dichiarata cattolica, ha poi aggiunto: "Oggi, 200 milioni di donne non hanno i contraccettivi che vogliono”. La smentita è arrivata subito. Infatti un giornalista di una radio e di una emittente televisiva del Camerun ha detto che il suo paese "ha ricevuto una enorme partita di contraccettivi nel 2011 da UNFPA", ma solo "circa il 2 per cento" delle donne effettivamente li usa perché in realtà nessuno li vuole. Altro che “bisogno insoddisfatto”. Al giornalista ha risposto il direttore dell’UNPFA: “noi di UNFPA continueremo a fare del nostro meglio per garantire non solo formazione, ma altresì per incoraggiare i governi, le comunità locali, le organizzazioni della società civile, le chiese e moschee a perseguire questo obiettivo". Gli ha fatto eco Awa Coll-Seck, Ministro della Salute per il Senegal, che ha aggiunto "spetta al governo risolvere realmente questi tipi di problemi” e “incoraggiare le persone a utilizzare la contraccezione e i servizi per abortire. […] Non possiamo avere solo una parte dell'equazione di mercato – ha continuato - ora la questione attiene ad un problema di domanda. Abbiamo bisogno di fare molta campagna informativa, molte attività relative all’istruzione, al coinvolgimento della comunità per garantire che questi prodotti saranno utilizzati". Insomma se la domanda non c’è la si crea, come per qualsiasi altro prodotto da supermercato.

Amparo, exrevolucionaria y funcionaria de la ONU: «Mi trabajo era destrozar la fe de los católicos»

In RL 

Amparo lo tuvo claro. Era la Virgen María quien le hablaba.

Todo sucedió cuando recibió un disparo de la policía en plena refriega. Cuando despertó en el hospital decidió que su vida debía cambiar radicalmente.

Su “enfangada” vida debía dar un giro de 180 y dejar de lado su servilismo político y su vida de pecado, y dedicarse a las mujeres y a los niños buscando su auténtico bien.

Un abuelo católico
Ella había nacido en una familia muy normal de Ecuador. Su fe era tradicional, de Misa dominical y poco más. La excepción de la regla fue su abuelo, quien sí vivía una auténtica vida cristiana.

En cierta ocasión, siendo Amparo adolescente y de camino hacia el ateísmo, su abuelo le dejó unas palabras que no habría de olvidar nunca. Estaban entrando en una iglesia, y ante una imagen de la Virgen le dijo: “Mírala a los ojos. Ella es la única que te va a salvar y la que te va a llevar a la fe”. La cosa quedó ahí.

El resto fue una caída libre: expulsada del colegio por pelearse con una monja, y un encuentro con evangélicos que acabaron de rematar su camino rebelde y ateo.

La revolución y las izquierdasEran los años 70 y 80, y la oferta social que Amparo encontró fuera de la Iglesia era la de los movimientos revolucionarios, la teología de la liberación marxista, el Che Guevara, los movimientos feministas, abortistas, el indigenismo y ese largo etcétera. Se metió de cabeza en todo ello.

Si algo no se le puede reprochar a Amparo es que no fuera una persona coherente con sus principios. Y tomó todas las banderas, las abrazó y se dedicó a ellas. Lo mismo la encontrábamos en una confrontación armada o en una manifestación antigubernamental, que en una campaña a favor de los derechos reproductivos de las mujeres, es decir, promoviendo los anticonceptivos y el aborto.

Se radicaliza en EspañaComo la situación política en Ecuador se complicó, su padre la envió a España a estudiar Pedagogía Social. En este país obtuvo su título universitario, pero también su radicalización política y el contacto con otros movimientos revolucionarios, ateos y anticlericales.

Ya de vuelta a Ecuador, su visión feminista y de izquierdas casaba perfectamente bien con las políticas que lleva a cabo la ONU en Latinoamérica, así que gracias a ello y a su formación llegó a ser responsable en Ecuador del programa de la UNFPA, es decir del Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas, desde donde contaba con todos los millones de dólares que necesitase para cumplir, o mejor dicho, imponer los programas contrarios a la natalidad, a favor del aborto y la anticoncepción.

Mi trabajo: quitar la fe a los católicos Amparo ha explicado en la cadena católica de televisión EWTN que “los grupos comunistas y socialistas saben que la única institución que puede romper sus mentiras es la Iglesia Católica. Entonces –confiesa- lo primero que buscas son argumentos que puedan destrozar la poca fe que tienen los católicos. Ves las noticias o vas detrás de ese sacerdote que no está viviendo su vida en gracia con Dios… Lo publicas y lo sacas en la prensa… Y –concluye- si hay que callar que en Ecuador, el 60% de las obras de ayuda a la gente pobre están en manos de la Iglesia, pues se silencia”.

Dañar a la Iglesia desde dentro

El gran problema de los sacerdotes es su soledad: “Nosotros íbamos buscando a los sacerdotes abandonados en los pueblos y en las serranías para decirles que si Dios existía, entonces por qué permitía la pobreza.

‘La única manera es la revolución. Únase a nosotros, y nosotros le ayudamos’. Había sacerdotes –lamenta ahora- que cedían y que pensaban que tendrían un grupo que le ayudase, que le apoyase, que estuviese con él… En ocasiones les ofrecíamos dinero a los sacerdotes y a las religiosas para que pudieran reconstruir, mejorar sus centros educativos con la única condición de que nos dejaran impartir clases de educación sexual y reproductiva en sus colegios”.

Alejándose aún más de Dios…En Amparo se cumple aquella cita de Chesterton que “cuando se deja de creer en Dios enseguida se cree en cualquier cosa”.

Inmersa en el ateísmo no dejaba de buscar algún resquicio de espiritualidad en la lectura de cartas, reiki, yoga…: “Como la vida en la lucha de izquierdas era una vida de pecado no te puedes librar de las consecuencias del pecado. Es la muerte espiritual. Son como pequeños pactos con el demonio. Y el demonio te los cobra -advierte. Así que empecé a sufrir por la parte del dinero".

"Alguien me recomendó que me hiciera unas limpias. Tenía mis propios mantras… que ahora que he podido traducirlos dicen ‘yo pertenezco a Satanás’. Las mantras las hice en Estados Unidos e, incluso, llevé a mis hijos al chamán que era un maestro ascendido de la Religión Universal”.

…aunque Dios no está lejosEn cierta ocasión estando en una comunidad, Amparo le retó a Dios. Había una mujer rezando, pero ella empezó a increparla y llamarla loca. Al grado de que acabó rompiéndole una estampita que tenía la pobre señora.

Su prepotencia de revolucionaria no le facilitaba muchas otras soluciones en aquella ocasión. Poco después vino el siguiente paso hacia su conversión.

Herida por una bala de la policíaAmparo había participando en todo tipo de

manifestaciones y luchas contra el gobierno. En ocasiones movilizando a los indígenas y facilitando que éstos acudieran armados con lanzas. Pero cierto día estando en una de ellas fue herida por una bala. Cuando recibió el impacto, Amparo recuerda dos cosas: por un lado a su marido y sus hijos, y por otro lado una paz inexplicable, total. No tenía miedo de irse. Todo era alegría, gozo, paz…

En eso, escuchó una voz que le cantaba: “Vi unos ojos maravillosos. Vi el amor. Eran los ojos de la Virgen. ¡Eran justamente los ojos de la estampa que yo había roto! La estampa de la Virgen Milagrosa. La vi como una adolescente de 15 años. Con traje blanco…”.

Mientras ella se desangraba, lo único que sentía era paz, alegría… En ese momento la Virgen le dijo: “Mi pequeña, yo te amo”. Y le pidió que dejara todas las causas que ella llevaba y que tomara la causa de su Hijo. También se dio cuenta de que detrás de la Virgen había un señor mayor: era su abuelo.

Y su marido la tomó por loca
Cuando se despertó le narró toda la experiencia a su marido, Javier. Él la tomó por loca, y no era para menos. Una atea convencida, militante anticatólica, y despertando de aquellos sueños…

En seguida le llevaron a que maestros ascendidos, a psicólogos y expertos de la Nueva Era la examinaran y la convencieran de que aquellas experiencias eran fruto de sus alucinaciones y las heridas recibidas. Sin embargo, “nadie podía quitarme de la cabeza que era Dios”.

Lo primero, confesarse“Lo primero que necesitaba era un sacerdote. Necesitaba confesarme. Lo primero, lo primero, era la confesión. Yo le pedía a Dios que no me muriera por el camino, yendo a casa, porque me iría al infierno. En la confesión estaban todos los pecados. Los más horribles”.

Era una nueva etapa, y había que comenzar desde el principio y bien hecho todo. Así que “lo primero que hice fue aprender a amar a Jesús, a amar a los sacerdotes, a amar a la Iglesia, amar a los sacramentos”.

Amparo se sentía totalmente enfangada y a la vez invitada a una nueva revolución: “Lo único que transforma el mundo es Dios. Yo no soy digna. Es tan grande el amor de Dios…”

La conversión de su maridoAmparó rezó e invitó a su marido Javier a la conversión. Con el tiempo, Javier, igual de revolucionario que ella, empezó a dar pruebas de cambio por amor a Amparo.

Debía ser una experiencia dramática en sí misma por el solo hecho de tener que romper con toda una vida de convicciones y lucha comprometida. Amparo lo explica así: “Mi marido aceptó creer en Dios y en la Virgen, pero no creía en el sacramento. Pero Dios nos puso un sacerdote santo en el camino. Por fin se confesó y su confesión duró más de dos horas. Al salir, sintió que se había quitado quintales y quintales de cosas”.

Ahora tocaba denunciar las mentiras de la ONU

La conversión de las personas, las más de las veces, es un proceso largo y con etapas. Amparo estaba en camino, pero aún no renunciaba a toda su vida de pecado. Parte de ella la necesitaba, pues su sueldo de Naciones Unidas era un ingreso necesario para la familia y su ritmo de gastos.

Todo vino cuando una amiga suya le pidió información sobre la distribución de la píldora del día siguiente por parte de Naciones Unidas en Ecuador. Amparo era responsable de su importación y distribución en el país.

De hecho su agencia de Naciones Unidas había vendido a Ecuador 400.000 (cuatrocientas mil) dosis de la píldora del día siguiente. La ONU en Nueva York, a la UNFPA en Ecuador: “Nos las venden a 25 centavos de dólar, y nosotros las vendemos entre 9 y 14 dólares. Es un negocio redondo”.

En Ecuador hubo un juicio que perdió Naciones Unidas por la distribución de la píldora y lo ganaron los provida, puesto que tuvieron que reconocer que no es un método anticonceptivo, sino que es antiimplantatorio, es decir abortivo, y que se utiliza cuando los métodos anticonceptivos fallan.
 

El culmen de su decisión de convertirse y dar un paso  definitivo hacia Dios se dio de camino al juzgado en ese juicio que perdió la ONU: “Cuando estábamos llevando la información al Tribunal, un periodista me hizo una pregunta que pensé que era Dios quien me la hacía -estás con Dios o estás con el demonio-. La pregunta fue: ¿Qué pensaba yo de la pastilla del día siguiente? Y, claro, yo seguía trabajando para las Naciones Unidas y apoyaba a todas las organizaciones proaborto. En ese momento me di cuenta de que era el momento de decir la verdad y dejar de mentirme a mí misma. Era una incoherencia ser católica y a la vez, por el dinero, seguir apoyando a una organización que va contra mis valores. Y, claro, dije la verdad y las Naciones Unidas me echaron”.

¿Qué hay detrás de Naciones Unidas?
Detrás de los proyectos de la ONU, detrás de las palabras bonitas que usan cuando hablan de salud reproductiva, en realidad hay toda una promoción del aborto y de los anticonceptivos. Es el único objetivo para toda América Latina.

En la entrevista de Amparo en la cadena de televisión norteamericana EWTN, denunciaba que en el libro “Cuerpos, tambores y huellas”, editado por las propias Naciones Unidas, se reconoce la promoción de las relaciones sexuales en niños desde los 10 años. Y que en él se explica claramente tres cosas:

- que los padres no deben ser informados de la educación sexual que reciben sus hijos,

- que los colegios deben distribuir anticonceptivos a sus alumnos sin conocimiento y consentimiento de los padres,

- y que si un maestro o médico llegase a informar a los padres de que sus hijos están usando anticonceptivos, ese maestro o médico debe ser expulsado de su trabajo por romper el silencio profesional.

Amparo, y no sólo de ella, denuncian la existencia de un completo negocio en el que no se desaprovecha nada: se promueve las relaciones sexuales entre los niños y adolescentes, y se les venden preservativos. Como éstos fallan, entonces se les ofrece el aborto o la píldora del día siguiente. Como el aborto produce restos humanos, estos sirven bien para la experimentación o bien para extraer algunas sustancias que después se usan cremas, champús, etc. Negocio completo.

Puede ver una conferencia de Amparo Medina

Y ahora en la lucha por la vidaLa realidad fue más dura de lo previsto en un primer momento. El matrimonio lo perdió todo cuando salió de la revolución. Tuvieron que renunciar a muchas cosas, las primeras a las materiales. Pero fue “hermoso encontrar juntos el amor de Dios y quitarse los mitos con respecto a los sacerdotes, a la Virgen, a la Iglesia…”

Amparo Medina y su marido Javier Salazar son padres de tres hijos. Ella es Directora ejecutiva de Acción Provida Ecuador (http://accionprovida.com.ec/) además de colaborar y asesorar en otros organismos.

Ahora también lucha por la familia, las mujeres y los niños, pero desde la verdad integral de las personas, y no desde el negocio económico.

Amenazas de muerteUn nuevo enfoque, sí, pero no exento de peligros. Así, Amparo ha sufrido amenazas de muerte como la que recibió no hace mucho en una caja de zapatos dentro de la cual había una rata muerta con el mensaje “muerte a los provida” y “recuerde que los accidentes existen, recuerde que las muertes accidentales son el día a día de este país, NO SIGA CON SU CAMPAÑA ANTI MUJER Y HOMOFÓBICA…Muerte a los traidores, muerte a los anti Patria, MUERTE O REVOLUCIÓN”.

Amparo no se arredra. Y sigue con su lucha confiada en que tiene en sus manos la posibilidad de defender miles de vidas humanas.

Si desea ver una entrevista realizada a Amparo Medina en la cadena de televisión nortemericana EWTN puede seguirla aquí

PRI: Bebé siete mil millones es una bendición para el mundo

WASHINGTON, 28 Oct. 11 / 06:28 am (ACI/EWTN Noticias)

El Presidente del Population Research Institute (PRI), Steve Mosher, afirmó que el nacimiento del bebé siete mil millones, previsto para este 31 de octubre, es "una bendición para todos" y no algo malo como quieren hacer creer los promotores del control poblacional a nivel mundial.

"El bebé 7 mil millones, niño o niña, blanco o negro, cobrizo o amarillo no es un problema sino un recurso. No es una maldición sino una bendición para todos nosotros. El problema a largo plazo de la humanidad no es que vaya a haber demasiados niños sino que va a haber muy pocos", afirmó Mosher en el último boletín del PRI.

En el documento, el líder pro-vida criticó las políticas del Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA), "que apoyada por grupos ambientalistas radicales y por organizaciones asociadas al control natal y aborto", usa este nacimiento "para promover el mito de la sobrepoblación y recolectar fondos para proyectos antinatalistas".

Dijo que "la mentalidad antinatalista es arrogante y elitista", porque "el mensaje que los líderes de países ricos le ofrecen a los africanos, asiáticos y latinoamericanos es claro: ‘Hay suficientes de nosotros y demasiados de ustedes’".

Mosher recordó que "el problema más agobiante que existe para la mayoría de países no es la sobrepoblación, sino el despoblamiento".

Dijo que "en una época que debería estar caracterizada por la austeridad fiscal, la última cosa que necesitamos es gastar los recursos del Estado para bajar las tasas de natalidad. De esa manera lo que provocamos es reducir el monto del capital humano disponible y hacernos más pobres a todos en el largo plazo".

Por ello, afirmó que "en el PRI estamos muy contentos con la llegada al mundo del bebé 7 mil millones".

Críticas a la UNFPA

El PRI también criticó "los sesgos ideológicos del Informe sobre el Estado de la Población Mundial 2011 de UNFPA". Indicó que este organismo de la ONU está "en riesgo de perder los fondos que recibe del gobierno norteamericano por su permanente apoyo a la imposición de la política de un solo hijo en China".

"Las investigaciones del PRI han demostrado reiteradamente que UNFPA es cómplice de una política que se lleva a cabo por medio de esterilizaciones y abortos forzados y que a la fecha ya ha eliminado a 400 millones de chinos", señaló.

ANALYSIS: The Problem With the UN’s New Fertility Forecasts

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

In C-FAM

NEW YORK, August 25 (C-FAM) The UN has reversed a decade of speculation about a demographic winter in the West, and now says that every country will achieve replacement fertility by 2100 resulting in a global population of 10 billion. The problem is there is no basis for their turnabout.

UN agencies are hailing new numbers as evidence of overpopulation in the developing world and vindication of decades of anti-natal policies in the West, but the scientific basis of the latest UN forecasts is slim.

The most significant change in the UN’s new numbers is an increase in the predicted convergence rate from 1.85 children per woman, below replacement, to 2.1, about replacement fertility.

While the UN claims there is consensus on the matter, demographers have long argued that there is no evidence to support the assumption that global fertility will ever converge, and no basis for the assertion that all nations go through three phases of demographic change: from declining birth rates where most developing nations are today, to below replacement rates experienced by all developed countries except the US, and finally to recovery at near replacement rates which a few Northern European countries have achieved.

Adherents to the recovery hypothesis say that the dip in European fertility rates may be due to women’s delaying childbearing. But as a new RAND study points out, “changes in birth timing can affect short-term birthrates” but “the effects are mild, and the result of delay can be permanent for the population as a whole even if not permanent for any one woman.”

In terms of youth 15-24 years old entering the workforce or military, the new figures would mean that India’s much-anticipated demographic advantage over China would be curtailed. India would have 75 million fewer youth by 2050, and 324 million fewer by 2100, while China would gain 26 million more than previously expected.

Germany’s share of youth in 2050 would rise from a projected 8.5 percent to 10 percent of its population according to the new UN forecast, more than doubling the number of youth previously predicted by 2100. Likewise, the number of Russian youth would be more than twice existing projections, and Japan’s share of youth would jump from just 7.7 percent in 2050 to 10.4 percent in 2100.

In sharp contrast, governments remain pessimistic. Recent reports from the European Commission and the Japanese government, for example, assume that fertility will remain near today’s levels which are about 1.3 in Japan, and 1.4 in Germany.

To achieve the dramatically new fertility predictions, the UN Population Division created a “probabilistic model” that uses high capacity computing to run 100,000 of fertility scenarios for each country.

While this new model gives a patina of greater scientific accuracy, it is based upon an arbitrary and unsubstantiated fertility rate. Just because demographers now have the capability of churning out many thousands of scenarios for each country studied does not mean the result is scientific.

Policy analysts would do well to reject the UN one-size-fits-all fertility projections and rely instead on data accounting for the various national factors contributing to desired family size.

Research Shows US and UN Diplomats Promoted Abortion as Population Control

By Lauren Funk

In C-FAM

NEW YORK, August 18 (C-FAM) The new book by journalist Mara Hvistendahl on sex selected abortion shows how American diplomats and politicians were active in promoting abortion, often through UN channels, as a means of population control in the developing world.

A body of historical evidence connects the advocates of abortion and population control with US development aid policy, organizations such as Planned Parenthood, and the United Nations secretariat.

General William Draper Jr., a World War II general turned US diplomat, was a “staunch proponent of abortion,” Hvistendahl writes in her controversial new book “Unnatural Selection.” General Draper directed the government’s interest in population control to coincide with issues of security and international development in the post World War II world by connecting high fertility rates with poverty, and poverty with the possible rise of communism in Asia. Draper promoted abortion as a viable method of birth control, and encouraged it for the sake of decreased fertility, which was expected to have positive economic effects in the targeted nations, thus avoiding conditions favorable to popular revolutions.

General Draper continued to advise numerous presidential administrations in the 1950’s and 1960’s on the threat to US national security posed by explosive populations in the developing world, suggesting abortion and “family planning” as the solution. General Draper was “responsible for the first official recommendations that the U.S. government help other nations, on request, to deal with population issues,” wrote Planned Parenthood when they honored him with the Margaret Sanger Award in 1966.

General Draper also advocated for the creation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 1969. International observers have criticized UNFPA for promoting “family planning” and access to abortion as a solution to the issue of poverty in countries with large populations and/or high fertility rates.

General Draper’s son, William H. Draper III, became one of the most significant figures at the United Nations during the following decade. Draper III was made head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1986. Under Draper’s tenure, UNDP expanded its fundraising to new levels and began a “Women in Development” division, a division which now focuses on achieving universal access to contraception, sex rights and HIV, and gender mainstreaming.

Draper III is also a member emeritus of Population Action International (PAI) board of directors. PAI was originally founded as the “The Population Crisis Committee” by General Draper, and continues to play an active role in supporting population-related programs, including activism at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development in 1994.

Research from Hvistendahl and others also revealed that prominent politicians like Henry Kissinger also promoted abortion abroad as a tool to reduce fertility around the world. Kissinger claimed in a 1974 government memo that abortion is vital to the solution of world population growth. “No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion,” stated the memo, which was signed by Kissinger.

US presidents, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush, similarly supported the promotion of population control in poorer countries, for the sake of American security and international stability

Explosive new book details war on unborn baby girls

By Marianne Medlin

Washington D.C., Aug 27, 2011 / 07:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Imagine waking up one day to find that every single woman in the U.S. has disappeared.

Picture this, writes author and scientific journalist Mara Hvistendahl, and you will come close to understanding the magnitude of over 160 million baby girls being selectively aborted in Asia and East Europe over the last few decades.

Already critically acclaimed since its release in June, Hvistendahl's book, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men,” meticulously documents the phenomenon of “missing” girls and its dire implications for the future.

“It's a huge problem,” Hvistendahl told CNA on Aug. 24. “What I want readers to take away is that this is a global issue on the level of something like HIV/AIDS or female genital mutilation.”

Hvistendahl said that aside from the basic issue of baby girls being aborted due to their gender in countries such as China, India, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, other human rights abuses are beginning to arise from the shortage of women in these regions.

“Women are being bought and sold – trafficked for sex work and for marriage,” she said, noting that the increase in bride-buying and forced prostitution in these countries is staggering.

The author, a Colombia University graduate who has worked as a “Science” magazine correspondent in Beijing, said that her interest in the subject of gender imbalances began to increase after living in China for a few years.

“I didn't understand why sex selection was happening,” she said. “I just felt it wasn't very well explained.”

Hvistendahl set off to find out more, traveling to nine countries and interviewing doctors, mothers, prostitutes, demographers, mail-order brides and men who would be forced into lifelong bachelorhood.

She began to discover a complicated web of explanations but eventually found that some of the ideological roots of the problem could be traced to zealous population control efforts from the 1960s and 70s.

Through funding from western organizations such as the World Bank and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, grants were being funneled into population control initiatives in eastern countries, with sex-selective abortion seen as an effective tool.

The results of these efforts show that in places such as China today, as many as 120 baby boys or more are being born for every 100 baby girls.

In addition to the current problems that women are facing in these countries, “the question in my mind was, How was this going to effect society 30 years from now when this hugely imbalanced generation grows up and there are many more men than women?” Hvistendahl asked.

“There is a danger in jumping too far ahead and making predictions about what will happen,” she added, “but I think this will be a major issue in China and India for social stability.”

“The governments in both countries are very worried,” she said, noting that men statistically commit more violent crimes in societies.

It's a troubling prospect that Hvistendahl is not alone in noticing.

Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt – a political economist, demographer and member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health – has often referred to the problem as a “war on baby girls.”

He outlined for CNA the three major factors he believes have led to the current crisis of gender imbalance.

The first is what he calls a “ruthless” son preference that is present in numerous cultures and religious systems.

That, coupled with the second problem of smaller families due to population control efforts such as China's “coercive” one-child policy, has made couples' quests for sons even more aggressive, he noted.

“When parents have five, six children, the gender outcome at birth isn't that critical,” Eberstadt said.

“But when parents are only going to have one or two children, the sex of that child seems to become something that parents want to have a say about.”

Eberstadt said that the third factor in the rise of sex-selective abortion in these countries is reliable, accessible and inexpensive prenatal gender determination technology, such as ultrasound machines, in areas with “policy environments of unconditional abortion.”

Despite the glaring human rights abuses caused by the practice, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been largely silent on the issue – a fact that's been noted by Hvistendahl and other experts.

Dr. Susan Fink Yoshihara, director of the International Organizations Research Group and vice president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, told CNA that the population fund has played “a major role” in the increase of sex-selective abortion.

“They do this by refusing to condemn the practice and mainly by promoting its two main causes: fertility control and increasing (the) availability of abortion.”

If the United Nations fund “says it promotes women’s rights,” Yoshihara said, “why do its leaders refuse to condemn this egregious practice of killing girls?”

Its “leadership has instead issued directives to its employees time and again that show UNFPA is more concerned with promoting abortion than defending women’s right to life.”

Adding to the problem is what many call the ineptitude of U.S. leadership in effectively addressing the issue of forced population control.

Vice President Joe Biden sparked controversy during his recent trip to China where he told leaders that he “fully understood” the country's one-child policy and was not “second guessing” it.

His comments came during an Aug. 21 appearance at Chengdu's Sichuan University where he was discussing the United States' dilemma of paying for entitlement programs when the number of retirees exceeds the number of workers – a problem he said China shared.

The vice president's remarks in Chengdu drew widespread criticism, particularly from pro-life activists and his political opponents.

“Instead of using the power the American people gave him to speak up for human rights, he ignored his responsibility,” Yoshihara charged.

“His scandalous comments are but one example of how easy it is for us to turn away from our responsibility toward the poorest of the poor, in this case, the unborn child.”

Eberstadt was equally critical of the Biden’s remarks, but observed that the “silver lining” in the recent gaffe could be that more media attention is brought to the issue.

He said that demographers in China estimate that half of the missing 160 million girls could be attributed to the country's one child policy alone.

Eberstadt likened the problem of discrimination against baby girls to the issue of slavery during the 19th century, saying that sex-selective abortion needs to be stigmatized in the same way.

“I think that the only sure way of extricating this – and it's an abomination – is the way we've extricated other abominations in the past,” he said.

“Which is through a struggle of conscience and the advent of a new moral understanding of why something like this should be absolutely anathema to a decent, civilized society.”

But an even deeper problem that needs to be addressed, observed Yoshihara, is the underlying human tendency towards selfishness.

“The fundamental problem is that we do not love one another. We do not see that the inconvenient or unwanted person is just as valuable, just as worthy of love, as you and me.”

“Ideologies like radical feminism that undergird UNFPA’s refusal to speak out, ideologies like communism that justify coercing or even forcing mothers to abort their children, and ideologies of utilitarianism that subtly pervade our own society,” she said, “make it easy for us to say nothing in the face of unspeakable human suffering.”

Progressives perplexed after book by fellow liberal highlights sex selection abortion

by Susan Yoshihara

August 18, 2011 (C-FAM) - A new book has raised hackles among abortion advocates about just how much the UN Population Fund is to blame for more than 160 million missing girls in Asia: aborted in the quest for sons.

Mara Hvistendahl’s Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men is “one of the most consequential books ever written in the campaign against abortion” according to a Wall Street Journal review. The book’s scholarly credentials were bolstered by a standing-room-only promotional event with demographer Nicholas Eberstadt at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

While conservatives hail the book’s breakthrough research, Hvistendahl’s fellow progressives haggle over its findings. The liberal Guardian’s review elicited a terse letter from UNFPA condemning Hvistendahl’s conclusion that UNFPA and feminist organizations have done little to stop the practice. In the letter UNFPA claims credit for persuading the Chinese to outlaw sex selection in 1994.

That law has done little, however. Sex selective abortion persists despite a similar ban in India, resulting in extremely skewed sex ratios at birth. Normally there are around 105 males per 100 females born, but China now reports a ratio of 120 boys to 100 girls, and that has led to trafficking for prostitution and widespread bride buying.

In her response to the UNFPA letter, Hvistendahl dodges direct conflict with the agency and instead criticizes the Guardian’s review as “misleading” readers into thinking she had proven UNFPA’s direct complicity in the one-child policy that fuels sex selective abortion. “There is a difference between outright funding an injustice and ignoring injustice once it occurs,” she argues. Readers may not be so convinced.

Hvistendahl ably demonstrates that despite UNFPA’s touted mission to fight gender discrimination, the agency deliberately refrains from taking a position on sex selective abortion. UNFPA officials told her privately this is because they are “in a bind” since, as one demographer working with UNFPA put it, “the right to abort remains UNFPA’s ‘priority issue.’”

“How do you hold on to this discrimination tag and at the same time talk about safe abortion access to it?” a UNFPA officer told her: “It has been a huge challenge to us…We are walking a tightrope.”

Internal UNFPA directives tell officers to shift the blame, emphasizing “women whose husbands beat them or threaten divorce if they don’t produce an heir.” One pamphlet directs advocates to “avoid language that holds the mother responsible…she has very little control over the decision…choice in the absence of autonomy is no choice.”

Hvistendahl cites a 2010 internal staff memo warning UNFPA country officers to stay away from the 1995 UN Beijing statement on women that condemned “prenatal sex selection and female infanticide” and to avoid associating the practice with human rights.

As soon as they acknowledge how many women go through numerous abortions to get a boy, a Canadian sociologist told her, “the Vatican will be the first one to say, ‘Ban abortion, make abortion illegal!’”

“Fear of the ‘A-word’,” Hvistendahl concludes, has “immobilized the very people who should be crying oppression.”

They are coming for our adolescent daughters…

They are coming for our adolescent daughters…

Help me stop them…

August 11, 2010

Dear Friday Fax Reader,

Sorry for this long letter, but I am angry, as angry as I have ever been in this job.

Our Friday Fax team of UN watchers has uncovered an alarming new scheme to advance the global abortion movement, a scheme aimed specifically at adolescent girls.

The United Nations – especially the notorious United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – is preparing a massive worldwide campaign to indoctrinate young girls in favor of abortion and an anti-Catholic agenda.

This campaign is being pushed by abortion groups, radical feminists and anti-family secularists in the name of “empowering youth.”

As you know, the Friday Fax was founded and exists to fight UN threats to life and family. We exist to act as an “early warning system” for Christians worldwide. It’s our job to sound the alarm about the many threats coming from the UN and other international organizations.

Threats to life. Threats to family. Threats to our moral values and the freedom to practice our Faith as Christians around the world.

In 13 years of UN-watching, I can’t think of a single threat more serious than this scheme of indoctrinating and programming the world’s youth to reject Christianity, parental authority, and the sanctity and dignity of life.

But that’s exactly what’s happening. And why I need your help ... and the help of every single C-FAM supporter if we are to prevail against this latest threat to life and families around the world.

Here’s the situation.

Right now, in the last few days the UN has kicked off the “International Year of Youth” which will last until the end of 2011.

As a lead-up event, the government of Mexico is hosting a World Conference on Youth in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, from August 23 to 27 –- just a few days from now.

This Mexican conference has the backing of the UN and the support of several powerful UN agencies, including:

• The UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
• The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• The UN Development Program (UNDP)
• The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

As you know, all these UN agencies have been part of the UN anti-life agenda. But none is more militantly pro-abortion, more dangerous to unborn babies around the world than the UNFPA.

The Friday Fax has learned that UNFPA is even paying for the flights of “select participants” to the youth conference in Mexico.

What’s more, we’ve come into possession of a secretly produced document that governments will be expected to endorse at this gathering.

This document strikes right at the heart of the parent-child bond. It demands radical and complete autonomy for young people, separate from their parents. The document doesn’t even use the hated word “parent.” UN member countries, including the Holy See, will be expected to endorse this grotesque anti-family manifesto.

In short, this coming year long effort to undermine the morality of our young people is the biggest threat we have uncovered in the thirteen years we have been defending life, faith and family at the UN.

This will be the biggest, most dangerous UN conference since the Cairo Conference on Population in 1994 and the Beijing Women’s Conference in 1995. The UN wants the world to see this new conference as truly representative of the world’s youth.

Here is what I am going to do but I need your help.

I am going to:

• Send a Friday Fax team to Mexico to get inside the governmental negotiations.
• Gather an army of young Christian law students to come to New York when the meeting convenes at UN headquarters this fall.
• Send the same group of committed pro-lifers to other meetings related to this conference all over the world.
• Commit the Friday Fax team to digging out this story for an entire year.
• Host regular conference calls for the global pro-life community to plot strategy (we have already held two such meetings).

The problem we face right now is that this brand new global threat was sprung on the UN community without warning only a few weeks ago. They kept this thing very much under wraps. They like their secrets.

Frankly, a mission of this magnitude will cripple our budget. Moreover, we are experiencing the usual summer downturn in fundraising made even worse due to the worldwide recession.

Right at the moment we are needed most, is the time we can least afford to mount this kind of effort.

Unless you help right now.

I am issuing this two-week emergency appeal to raise $50,000 to offset Friday Fax expenses related to this massive and frightening attack on our adolescent children.

This money will cover our usual expenses to produce the Friday Fax, which is the only weekly source of pro-life and pro-family news coming out of UN headquarters in New York.

As you are aware, the Friday Fax costs upwards of $200,000 to produce each year. This includes our usual expenses: salaries, rent, email expenses (which are massive: email is not free when you email a million a month!), plus costs for producing a snail mail edition of the Friday Fax.

But, with this new threat, we have new one time expenses:

• Travel expenses to Mexico, New York and maybe even to Africa for me, my staff and our Edmund Burke Fellows (we always travel economy class, but the bills are still hefty)
• Hotel bills (we always stay in budget hotels, but it all adds up)
• The cost of sending out 1.6 million emails to generate signatures for our Youth Statement to the World
• Fees we’ll pay to our expert public relations firm to get the word out globally
• The costs of news conferences in New York, Mexico and Africa to expose the UN’s evil deeds to millions
• Renting meeting space (our tiny office isn’t big enough to hold everyone we plan to bring to Mexico and New York)
• A new Website we’re launching called “Youth Under Siege” that will monitor and expose the schemes to corrupt the world’s young girls (and boys)

I haven’t been so charged-up and angry about a UN conference in years! After all, they’re coming for our Catholic daughters. Now that I have two daughters, 5 and 2, I know what this means. I vow these people WILL NOT GET THEIR HANDS ON OUR DAUGHTERS.

Go HERE right now and give as much as you can to help the Friday Fax defend our daughters against the truly Satanic agenda to undermine their morals and even threaten their lives (deadly sexual diseases are rampant among young people who take UNFPA’s advice).

Go HERE right now and give as much as you can. You can give using your credit card on our totally secure server. Or you can use PayPal. Or you can mail a check to us to:

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Let me just close by saying I promise I will stoke my righteous anger all year long. My staff and I are totally committed to fighting this new conference over the next 12 months. We will continue to report to you what is going on and we will be there on the front lines every step of the way.

They will not get our daughters.

Yours sincerely,


Austin Ruse
Editor
Friday Fax

www.c-fam.org

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