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  29 April 2003Volume 5/ Number 13 Dear Colleague: In Africa, nearly 6 out of 10 victims of HIV/AIDS are women. Why does the disease disproportionately strike African women? Because, say the gender feminists at the United Nations, they are powerless to refuse sex with HIV-positive men. We disagree with this ideologically-motivated assessment. We believe that the targeting of women and girls for invasive contraceptive, sterilization and abortion procedures by so-called Sexual and Reproductive Health programs is largely responsible. Steven W. MosherPresident African Women and AIDS An examination of HIV/AIDS statistics by region and by gender reveals a curious anomaly....

WASHINGTON - As attention in Iraq begins to shift from war to rebuilding, some Catholic leaders wonder what kind of society the United States and United Nations want to create there. In the past, institutions such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.N. Population Fund have promoted family planning, including abortion. Such promotion could result in a backlash among the traditional Christians and Muslims of Iraq, some observers say. "I know that wherever [the U.N. Population Fund] goes, contraception and abortion follow," said Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, an organization that...

Dr. Theresa Burke's latest book on post-abortion therapy, "Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion," is endorsed by the great enemy of the feminist agenda, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Burke concurs with Dr, Laura that the feminist movement has brought us deep psychological problems, especially the abortion culture, because "if you examine the women's movement you can see that many of the women who laid the groundwork were women traumatized by their own abortions. They believed that legalizing abortion would take away the trauma." Instead, as Dr. Burke shows, they created trauma, which brought us the nightmare culture. She applies psychology...

A DECISION by President Bush to suspend £24 million of United States funding to a United Nations body accused of assisting forced abortions in China is threatening to cloud his visit to Beijing this month. By withholding the money from the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), Mr Bush has made clear his opposition to China's extreme population control methods. Beijing is hoping to extend the controls, which restrict the majority of couples to one child, for another generation. Beijing is furious with Mr Bush, who has been swayed by reports implicating the UNFPA in abuses of the one-child policy. ...

USAID clearly implicatedFRONT ROYAL, April 7, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Population expert Dr. Steve Mosher reports on underhanded abortion tactics in rural Africa. "In a dusty backwater of Western Kenya, three hundred miles from the capital city of Nairobi," he says, a Marie Stopes International (MSI) abortion clinic performs primitive suction abortions, sometimes on uninformed clients unaware of what is being done until it is too late. The Population Research Institute's investigation found that MSI officials openly admitted they have collaborated with USAID-funded "family planning" groups, including EngenderHealth, to promote abortion in Kenya. According to David Walker, Kenya's Country Representative for...

Statement by Saundra Duffy My Mom died of cancer. Two of her sisters have died from cancer. Therefore, I am predisposed to cancer and, in fact, I have had two bouts with cancer. I am offended that Planned Parenthood, and some in the media, has criticized me because of my concern for women with breast cancer, even though I'm not dying of the disease myself at this very moment. I am offended that the abortion industry wants to keep women in the dark about the abortion breast-cancer link. Planned Parenthood obviously has a very low opinion of our ability to...

Our Dark AgesPro-Life Conferees Say Research on Abortion Risk IgnoredBy Fred Martinez The Global Family Life conference at the Santa Clara Marriott was not well received by Bay Area media who either ignored it, or responded with skepticism at the claims of the pro-life conferees. The speakers responded by blasting the media both for its ignorance of medical research and for misrepresenting the scandals in the Church. The conference ran from April 3 through April 7 across the street from Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara and featured 26 pro-life leaders from around the world. Steve Mosher, head of...

Dear Colleague: PRI has been observing UNFPA operations in Vietnam for several years. We have ample documentation, both from the Vietnamese government and from population experts, demonstrating that UNFPA supports coercive population control in this communist nation. UNFPA itself makes no claims that its operations in Vietnam involve "voluntarism." Clearly, continuing to fund the UNFPA would be a violation of federal law. Steven W. Mosher President PRI Weekly Briefing 1 February 2002 Vol. 4/ No. 4 UNFPA Supports Coercion in Vietnam By Steve Mosher In the summer of 1999, a PRI representative visited the headquarters of the United Nations Population ...

The news that breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the most common British cancer came as a surprise to many. Not to Patrick Carroll, however, the author of a new study from Great Britain that links the huge increase in breast cancer to the widespread practice of abortion. Dr. Carroll's study demonstrates that abortion actually doubles the risk of cancer in women.(1)And the worst is yet to come. In England and Wales the breast cancer rate is expected to rise by over 2 per cent per annum between now and 2023-some 60 percent-among women aged 45 to ...

I suppose I took an interest in Warren Buffet when my wife discovered, courtesy of a newspaper account in the mid 1980s, that a college friend of mine was the son of Warren's Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger. Up to that point, he seemed to be essentially what the media portrayed him to be: a fantasticly successful investor with a home-spun wit. His sinister side, of course, came out this week with his proposition 13 comments, and it brought to mind the other public part of his life, unrelated to investing and finance. He apparently gives very little to charity and...

And the journalists who cite him. THE TALIBAN MAY BE DEAD, but its propaganda lives on in the European and Middle Eastern press--thanks in part to the tireless machinations of one hard-left professor at the University of New Hampshire and to the willingness, nay, eagerness, of some of our foreign "friends" to believe the worst about America. On December 10, Marc Herold, an associate professor of economics and women's studies, released a "dossier," claiming to have "documented" 3,767 civilian deaths in the American air campaign in Afghanistan. The count is updated daily in a database on the web (www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm). Herold's...

By Karl Maurer, Vice President and Treasurer Chicago Catholics are reacting with anger and shock over a press release by Cardinal George late Friday afternoon. The release reads as follows: "Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., learned from the news media that the Rev. Al Sharpton has been invited to speak at St. Sabina's on February 9 in the course of celebrating Black History Month. The Cardinal supports the celebration but does not approve of the invitation because of the Rev. Sharpton's present political candidacy and his pro-abortion stance." "Since the homily at Mass is a liturgical action, the homilist is to...

From: The Pro-Life Infonet Reply-To: Steven Ertelt Subject: Judge Rules for Abortion Facility in Abortion-Breast Cancer Case Source: Pro-Life Infonet; March 28, 2002 Judge Rules for Abortion Facility in Abortion-Breast Cancer Case Fargo, ND -- Fargo, ND -- After more than three days at trial in state court, Judge Michael McGuire ruled in favor of a North Dakota abortion facility that distributes information stating there is no link between abortion and breast cancer. Ruling from the bench, Judge McGuire relied on trial testimony from those who deny a link between abortion and breast cancer -- despite testimony presented by expert...

Chinese women married to Taiwanese men are being ordered to have abortions or sterilization surgery during visits to the mainland to comply with China's controversial "one-child policy." At least six of those women report that family planning officials forced them to undergo pregnancy tests in recent months, according to the Taiwanese body that deals with mainland relations, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). SEF legal services director Patricia Lin said by phone from Taipei Friday that those who were deemed to have violated the "one-child" rule - by getting pregnant after already having a child - were also fined and threatened...

Accusing the White House of playing political games with the lives of poor women overseas, pro-abortion members of Congress pressed President Bush Tuesday to explain why he has held up $34 million for U.N. family planning programs that have looked the other way as China has implemented a policy of coercive abortions and sterilizations. A group of 48 pro-abortion members of Congress sent a letter to Bush asking that he release the findings of a U.S. delegation that traveled to China in early May to see how the funds are used. The group asked Bush to meet with them so...

<p>BEIJING — A decision by President Bush to suspend $34 million of funding to a U.N. body accused of assisting forced abortions in China is threatening to cloud his visit to Beijing this month.</p> <p>By withholding the money from the U.N. Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), Mr. Bush has made clear his opposition to China's extreme population-control methods. Beijing is hoping to extend the controls, which restrict the majority of couples to one child, for another generation.</p>

With the 30th anniversary of the horrible Roe vs Wade ruling upon us, I want to make a compilation of all the pro-life rallies and observances. Please post any rallies that you know of. Hopefully you can make one of these or start your own. 2003 Pro-Life Rallies * CALIFORNIA * Wednesday 22 January SACRAMENTOTHIRTY YEARS OF ROE: A GENERATION LOST a Statewide Leadership Conference. 8am-10am Annual Prayer Breakfast at The Grand, 1215 J Street, Sacramento. (Cost $20 to register) 10:30 a.m. - the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and Catholics for Life will sponsor a pro-life Mass. 11th and K,...

Completely contradicts past UNFPA claimsWASHINGTON, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has admitted that it does not monitor the 32 counties in China where it operates, and therefore has no way of knowing if coercive abortion is as rampant in its 32 county programs as victims and human rights groups claim. The admission comes after UNFPA told U.S. authorities that no coercive abortion was taking place in a bid to ensure U.S. financial support for UNFPA's activities in China. UNFPA is desperate to reinstate US funding for its programs after a Population Research Institute (PRI)...

Dear RNC/Life Supporters: Please act on this report right away. Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) who has led the way in trying to protect American taxpayers from involvement with China's coercive "one-child" abortion policy, and who supported George W. Bush's campaign for president, has said, according to Ken Connor's December 20, 2001 Washington Update, "I have no doubt in my mind they (the Bush administration) will do the right thing." [If they did not, "it would be a real breach of faith." You bet it would be a breach of faith - for millions of Americans who voted for George Bush, ...

(CNSNews.com) - A Virginia-based population research organization claims that Americans are funding coerced abortions and sterilizations over seas, without even knowing it. At a hearing before the House International Relations Committee Wednesday, witnesses to China's harsh population control laws testified about the effects of the laws on women and their families. Currently in China, families are allowed to have only one child. In keeping with the country's one-child policy, pregnant mothers in the People's Republic of China are required to have an explicit "birth authorization" to have their child. Violators of the law face forced abortions and sterilization. According to ...