UN WANTS POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIA and ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT PROCEDURES TO RATIFY FEMINIST DOCUMENT

UNITED NATIONS PROPOSES COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIA
Cruel "reward and punishment" system proposed for food aid.

The United Nation's emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has called for pressure tactics for depopulation in Ethiopia. Rather than providing food aid, the EUE is suggesting that a "reward and punishment" system should be implemented to implement 'family planning'.

African media quote the EUE report as saying, "If Ethiopia wants to become less dependent on foreign food aid, all appropriate means should be explored to stop the ongoing population explosion."

"The dissemination of family planning methods, possibly linked with relief operations, must be stepped up," it said. "Family planning education should be pursued more aggressively and it might be worth contemplating how far a system of reward and punishment could help implement family planning strategies."

See the Africa.com coverage:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200303200017.html

UNITED NATIONS ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT PROCEDURES TO RATIFY CONTROVERSIAL FEMINIST DOCUMENT
Meeting Suspended After Dispute Causes Disarray

NEW YORK, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting was suspended in disarray last week as various country delegates objected to the attempt by the chairman to ratify a document as agreed upon by consensus even though several states objected. Feminists have pushed hard at the U.N. to say the CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) convention mandates the provision of abortion but have run into problems attempting to force countries into giving up their religious objection to abortion.

The document in question sought to include a statement which would make countries "condemn violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination." Iran, Egypt and Sudan objected to the phrase but Canada and the EU led the charge in refusing to allow the statement to be deleted from the document or even modified so as to respect religious rights. In U.N. feminist parlance violence against women includes refusal to allow abortion which is called 'forced pregnancy'.

Despite the disagreements, the chairman of the meeting attempted to call the matter agreed upon and told objecting members to register their objections at the end of the document. However, Iran objected that the move was a breech of U.N. procedure and was supported in its objection by the United States. After this the meeting was abruptly suspended.

See the U.N. report on the meeting and a detailed report by Concerned Women for America:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/wom1399.doc.htm
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3596&department=CWA&categoryid=nation
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LEAD CANDIDATE SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR

ARIS, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Members of the steering committee of the International Criminal Court have gone outside the normal process for nomination of a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court and have selected a likely candidate according to the New York Times. Louis Moreno Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer, is being touted to be the court's first prosecutor, after a secret meeting by the steering committee. The final endorsement of Ocampo is left to the 89 member countries of the ICC at their April meeting.

Critics of the court have warned that ICC documents afford the prosecutor unchecked power and as such pose immense danger. The United States has therefore refused to take part in ICC proceedings including the selection of judges and prosecutor.

Ocampo, currently a Harvard University Professor, is known for his prosecution of political figures. He is president of Transparency International for Latin America.
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THREE TOP INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT JUDGES LINKED TO ABORTION MOVEMENT
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/mar/03031201.html

See the New York Times coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/americas/24COUR.html
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HOLLYWOOD GLORIFIES "INFAMOUS PEDOPHILE" ROMAN POLANSKI
Shows Tolerance for Sexual Abuse of Minors

HOLLYWOOD, March 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Academy Awards last night presented glorified director Roman Polanski with the best director award for his recent film The Pianist. The award emphasized Hollywood's tolerance for sexual abuse of minors since Polanki continues to be a fugitive in France after being caught in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

U.S. sex researcher Dr. Judith Reisman recalls Polanski as "an infamous Hollywood pedophile" with a "sadistic sexual history". A much sanitized description of Polanski's rape of his 13-year-old victim notes that he drugged, raped, sodomized and almost killed a 7th-grade girl he tricked into a hot tub.

Polanski's win was met with a standing ovation from the Hollywood elite at the award ceremonies. Notably, actor Jack Nicholson did not stand. Polanski raped the 13-year-old in Nicholson's home while the actor was away.

See Reisman's article on the Polanski case:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31264

See the AP coverage:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/23/state0024EST0123.DTL

As even the dimmest of bulbs can plant food and watch it grow.

How hard can that be?

Africans work VERY HARD at destroying their own food supply. Case in point: Zimbabwe. Can't have any more large commercial farms, that's RACISM (white colonialism, ya know).

Men too can choose not to procreate. It takes two. Women cannot become pregnante by parthenogensis.

I don't see the UN suggesting population control by having men take responsibility for stopping unwanted pregnancies. That women are targeted to be the responsibility bearers for population control says a lot about just how equal we are to men worldwide, IMO.

I think that an awful lot of the unwanted pregnancies in 'civilized countries' are because a woman chose to sleep with a man who wouldn't or didn't think to take the responsibility to prevent unwanted procreation, and she didn't either. Maybe she let emotions or homones rule her brain because IF she gets pregnant, she can always get an abortion.

Setting all moral issues aside, elective abortion is NOT an effective population control measure.

I don't want to set morals aside. I believe that life begins at conception.

While the availability of abortion has let millions of women off the responsibility hook, how many men have been let off that same hook without having to be the one to kill their unborn child?

And, again IMO, I believe the UN is practicing genocide with its population control agenda.

You're right. Women in Ethiopia don't have the same access to birth control that women in 'civilized countries' do. And, yes, it's truly horrible that many women are oppressed & abused in many countries.

"...it's cruel slap in the faces of abused and oppressed women to claim that they had a choice as to whether or not they got pregnant in the first place."

Do you think these oppressive & abusive men in third world countries will allow their women to terminate the life of their unborn children? Do you think these oppressed and abused women in third world countries will seek abortions if available? Do women in Ethiopia even want abortions readily available? Would they really head on down to the local abortuary for a woman's reproductive health abortion then head on home to the men that have and will continue to oppress & abuse them?

I think it's a cruel slap in the face to allow women to be oppressed and abused and then expect them to have an abortion to cut down on the number of hungry mouths to feed.

This whole [hidden] UN agenda of allowing (permitting? encouraging? requiring?) abortion to control the populations of third world countries makes no sense to me. Except as genocide.

Promotion of voluntary abortion for the purposes of population control may be genocide, immoral, etc... (I believe they are). But that is entirely beside MY point.

Promotion of voluntary abortion for the purpose of poplulation control simply does not make logistical, practical sense. I simply cannot work, on a voluntary basis. The ONLY way abortion can be an effective tool for population control is if it is NOT VOLUNTARY.

It is my suspicion that mandatory abortion is the ultimate trajectory of the promotion of voluntary abortion. This was forseen by many (most) of the early feminists who argued against abortion on that premise. I believe they will turn out to be right.

If one argues that voluntary abortion is immoral, it follows that mandatory abortion is even more immoral.

Focussing on women exclusively in procreation discussions particularly in laying blame (as most men are wont to do IME) is simply a quicker track toward mandatory abortions performed on women, mandatory sterilization of women, mandatory contraceptive use by women (see China). Quite naturally, these policies are popular with many men, because they don't involve any loss of bodily autonomy, nor violation of human rights for men. It is more easy to justify actions which don't place one in personal jeapardy, as many examples in history have shown us.

Focussing exclusively on women in issues of procreation (as many INSIST on doing) sets the stage for justification of human rights abuses against women and only women in the name of some perceived common good (see China) like population control.

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