CHURCH HELPS STOP STERILIZATION PROGRAMME IN PERU

LIMA, June 5 (LSN) – Catholic World News (CWN) reported this week that the covert scheme to sterilize poor women in Peru—often without their consent—has crumbled, thanks to pressure from Catholic bishops and various pro-life groups. Sources within Peru’s Ministry of Health say sterilization have decreased by 68%,  due to “a dramatic lack of confidence both in the method and in health agents.” One of the leaders in the push for population control in the country, Jorge Parra, director of the Reproductive Health and Planned Parenthood program, said, “Obviously, we will not reach our annual goal to perform 78,000 tubal ligations and 22,000 vasectomies throughout the country, and we also had to suspend our sterilization festivals.”  CWN reported that Parra blamed the Catholic Church for employing “a subtle guerrilla war against the program.”