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Friday February 13, 2004
Peru Being Illegally Targeted for Abortion by USAID
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FRONT ROYAL, February 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten Peruvian Congressmen have written a letter to USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios charging the United States Aid agency with conniving to change Peru's laws to allow abortion. Mexico City Policy prevents U.S. family planning funds from being used to promote, perform, or lobby for the legalization of abortion. The accusation has been denied by USAID, but the letter cited actions by that organization that proves the allegation beyond any doubt, giving names and dates.
"Peru is a democratic country, with a constitution that protects human life from conception and strong pro-life laws," says the letter. The letter gives details saying that on October 11, 2003, "USAID/Peru funded an event at which the legalization of surgical abortion was promoted. USAID/Peru supported this
political lobbying event at which surgical abortion was promoted in word and in legislative text drafted to legalize abortion in Peru. USAID/Peru later misrepresented this text to be a mere summary of international documents; this summary, however, contains explicit references to abortion nowhere found in international documents and designed to promote the legalization of abortion in Peru."
The Family Research Council says that Peru is one country that has been especially singled out by population controllers for coercive measures such as forced sterilization and strong-arm political tactics.
Peru seems to be a favorite target of concerted international efforts to sterilize and abort their people. In 2002, the British aid agency, the Department of International Development (DFID), headed by Clare Short, an abortion activist, offered Peru a $24 million dollar grant entitled "Improving the Health of the Poor: A Human Rights Focus," that had as a major focus the implementation of population control.
The Population Research Institute (PRI), an organization dedicated to dispelling the myth of over population and to protecting individuals and countries from being targeted, wrote in a recent news release that "the funding of this conference, and of organizations that are pushing for abortion on demand in Peru, is a blatant violation of U.S. law." Says Steven Mosher, of PRI, the speakers at the conference did not try to hide their intention regarding Peru's laws. One speaker said, "…the other matter we must acknowledge [about abortion] is that of illegality. We must finally recognize that -- and fortunately it does happen -- the law is changeable."
Population Research Institute Weekly News Briefing:
http://www.pop.org/main.cfm?EID=517
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