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International Planned Parenthood Federation Launches New Abortion Campaign in Europe Uses strongly anti-religious language By Maciej Golubiewski BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, August 31, 2007 (C-Fam.org) - Using strongly anti-religious language, the European branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has recently issued a document entitled "Why We Need to Talk about Abortion" calling for the legalization of abortion in the European Union (EU).  While acknowledging that the member states retain "ultimate responsibility" for abortion legislation, the IPPF-Europe urges the EU Commission and the European Parliamentarians to act "despite this mandate" to "drive the issues forward" and "keep them high on the...

There are fears that the exclusion of sexual and reproductive health from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals will accelerate the rate of unsafe abortions and maternal mortality rates in poor countries, writes MEERA MURUGESANGIVE a woman adequate access to contraception and she’ll have the chance to space out her pregnancies, keep herself and her children healthier and avoid unsafe abortions. It’s a simple and logical link but one that policy makers in many countries prefer to ignore as sexual and reproductive health is no longer the compelling issue it was once seen to be, says Dr Steven Sinding (right),...

Bush Administration Pulls Plug on Financing of Pro-Abortion Global Health Council Conference By Dave AndruskoThe Department of Health and Human Services has officially decided to withhold funding from an upcoming June conference which features a number of speakers from pro-abortion organizations and the "fiercely anti-Bush Moveon.Org." Sponsored by the Global Health Council, the June 1-June 4 conference on global health and reproductive rights "will likely promote policies contrary to the president's," according to the publication, The Hill.Among the presenters at "Youth and Health: Generation on the Edge" are advocates from such abortion-promoting organizations as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)...

Dear Colleague: Ideas have consequences. With a recent surge in media coverage relating to China's one-child policy, it is important to understand the origins of that barbaric program which I first documented in 1979-80. It all began with the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth hoax of the early seventies. A computer simulation of population growth and ecological collapse convinced China's ruling elite to embark on a radical program to cut in half the number of people in China. The population controllers and their radical environmentalist sidekicks bear a moral responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people...