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Friday July 14, 2006
United States Funding Sterilizations of Philippine Women
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By Gudrun Schultz
PHILIPPINES, July 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – United States tax
dollars are funding sterilization programs in the Philippines, reported
Focus on the Family’s Family News in Focus today.
The Filipino Family Fund raised the alarm in November 2005 with initial
reports of sterilization quotas in two provinces, triggering a U.S.
investigation last March. The ongoing investigation has confirmed that
“target quota” systems were set up in at least two provinces. A full
report to Congress is expected shortly.
“This is the tip of the iceberg. If the U.S. government is now
discovering quota systems to sterilize women have been in place for
years, what other practices are violating women’s health or harming our
families with U.S. tax dollars?” said Eileen Macapanas Cosby, executive
director of the Filipino Family Fund.
According to a press release by the organization, Filipino healthcare
workers contracted by USAID have been using quota systems to sterilize
women. Many of the healthcare professionals are working as affiliates
of International Planned Parenthood, which is committed to establishing
population control programs in the Catholic nation.
Female sterilization has become a favourite approach to artificially
limiting family size in the country, although Filipino men have also
been targeted with USAID-funded programs offering free chemical
vasectomies.
Dr. Ligaya Acosta, former Philippine Dept. of Health official, resigned in protest over policies pushing sterilization.
“Health workers are given stiff targets or quotas for contraceptive
acceptors and sterilization services each month,” Dr. Acosta reported
to the FFF. “Awards and incentives are given to high performers, and
for those who don’t perform well, no additional funds are given. Huge
case incentives and grants are usually too big to ignore. Acceptors are
not told about the side effects of artificial contraception.”
USAID has followed an aggressive policy of promoting population control in developing countries.
“It’s special interest groups like Planned Parenthood who have been
making a business out of this for I don’t know how long and as long as
they continue doing this, they are making millions,” Mercedes Wilson
with Family of the Americas Foundation told Family News.
The Philippines has been fighting efforts to bring in mandatory
policies restricting family size to just two children. The Filipino
bishops have stepped to the forefront in the battle, rallying Catholic
opposition to enforced population control.
In 2005, the Philippine Ambassador to the UN, Lauro Baja Jr., said the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) had allotted the equivalent of
US $26 million to fund reproductive health programs (typically
including artificial contraceptives, sterilization and abortion).
In the declassified 1974 document, National Security Study Memorandum
200, the US listed the Philippines among nations to be targeted with
radical population control measures, to be imposed through the United
Nations aid programmes.
Read coverage by Family News in Focus:
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041233.cfm
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Thousands Rally in Philippines to Protest Population Control Bill
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/mar/05030705.html
THOUSANDS OF PHILIPPINE MEN UNDERGO CHEMICAL VASECTOMY IN USAID FUNDED PROGRAM
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/apr/03040905.html
Philippines Mayor Orders Police to Continue Abortion Pill Crackdown
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042601.htmll
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