Thursday February 11, 2010
IPPF Complains Canadian Conservative Government Delaying Millions in Funding
By Patrick B. Craine
OTTAWA, Ontario, February 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the world’s largest abortion provider, is complaining that the Canadian government has not yet responded to their request for a funding renewal of $18 million over the next three years.
IPPF spokesman Paul Bell told Canwest News Service that IPPF was “taken by surprise” after Michael Ignatieff pointed out the delay in IPPF’s funding last week while he was pushing for abortion in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new G8 maternal and child health plan.
The news of the delay in IPPF funding follows a petition launched last year by Conservative Member of Parliament Brad Trost (Saskatoon-Humboldt), which asked the government to completely cut funding to the abortion giant. Trost told LifeSiteNews (LSN) in November that his goal was for the funding not to be renewed when it expired in December.
Besides IPPF’s provision of and advocacy for abortion, Trost’s petition also pointed out that IPPF “does not support physicians’ freedom to practice according to their conscience and/or religious beliefs regarding abortion referral.”
IPPF’s promotion of abortion is part and parcel of their radical view of sexuality that would be offensive to many Canadians. This radical approach was highlighted last month when IPPF released a new report entitled “Stand and Deliver,” in which they demand that children ten years and older be given a “comprehensive sexuality education.”
“Young people are sexual beings,” the report states. “With young people as partners, today’s adult decision-makers have the chance to recast sex and sexuality as a positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self.”
The report states that young people must be able to “obtain the services they need and want, unconstrained by psychological, attitudinal, cultural or social factors.” Governments should ensure that sex education is delivered even to children who do not attend school, IPPF maintained.
Additionally, last month, Planned Parenthood vice president of international programs, Veena Siddharth, related how the organization is engaged in training Ecuadorean children as young as 11 to inject their peers with the abortifacient contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.
Bell told Canwest that IPPF put their application into the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in mid-2009, and they have not been told why the funding is delayed. Canada’s previous commitment of $6 million a year ended on December 30, 2009. Bell indicated that the delay in funding means they must rely on ‘reserve’ funds.
“At the moment we really are in a position where we don’t know what the delay is,” Bell told Canwest. “But of course it does have a consequence the longer it goes on for.”
Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition, laughed when LSN asked him about IPPF’s complaint over having to dip into ‘reserve’ funds. “That’s your dollar and mine sitting there in their repository,” he said.
Hughes applauded the government for holding off on the funding and urged them to direct Canadian aid to truly beneficial initiatives. “I think it’s a very positive move in these uncertain economic times,” he said, “when you want to make sure that whatever taxpayer funding is available is directed to causes that will help women and children in Third World countries, just as Mr. Harper outlined in his plans for the G8.”
Contact Information:
Bev Oda, MP (Durham) and Minister of International Cooperation
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6
Phone: (613) 992-2792
Fax: (613) 992-2794
Email: [email protected]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail: [email protected]
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian MP Launches Petition to Stop Federal Funding of Planned Parenthood
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09110203.html
New IPPF Document Pushes Adolescent “Sexual Rights”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10012808.html
International Planned Parenthood Capitalizing on Haiti Earthquake with New Fundraiser
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10011902.html
Planned Parenthood Trains Ecuadorean Children to Inject Each Other with Contraceptives
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10012203.html
Life Versus Death; Beggars Versus Giants
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09102908.html