E.U. COMPENSATES UNFPA FOR U.S. SHORTFALL

BRUSSELS, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The European Union is going to give the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) US$34 millon for "sexual and
reproductive health" programs including abortion, contraception and
sterilization in developing countries to make up for the U.S. decision to
cancel its contribution. The European commission says it will send the money
to projects run by the UNPFA and the International Planned Parenthood
Federation.

A spokesman for Poul Nielson, the EU's development commissioner, claimed:
"The losers from this [U.S.] decision will be some of the most vulnerable
people on earth," including 80,000 women the pro-abortionists claim "die
every year from unsafe abortions." Mr. Nielson, a former Danish development
minister, argues that organisations such as UNPFA and IPPF are part of the
solution, not part of the problem.

However, evidence from Uganda proves the opposite. There, national
government abstinence programs have resulted in the world's first successful
AIDS reductions. By contrast, countries saddled with IPPF and UNFPA condom
programs continue to suffer without relief.

To read coverage in the left-wing Guardian newspaper see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,762053,00.html

For LifeSite coverage of the Uganda success fighting AIDS with chastity see:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/jul/02072201.html

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