A number of dissident “Catholic” organizations have exposed themselves as pro-abortion after endorsing the Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) campaign to lobby politicians to rescind the Mexico City Policy. The failed CFFC effort was endorsed by Catholics Speak Out, Dignity/USA, National Coalition of American Nuns, Women-Church Convergence and the Catholics for Contraception. Added to the list was a Latin-American group called Voces Catolicas. https://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0515-125.html
United Nations has overlooked its protocol and given its population controller of the year award to one of its own. Dr. Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning will share the 2001 United Nations Population Award. https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/pop803.doc.htm
SPUC News Digest reports that the South African health department has expressed concern that state clinics cannot cope with the high demand for abortion. There are between 2,500 and 3,000 abortions performed in state hospitals and clinics every month in South Africa, while abortions are also carried out in private facilities. The health department has revealed that a total of 155,624 legal abortions were performed in state facilities between the time of the legalization of abortion in February 1997 and the end of January this year. 80,873 (over half) of these were obtained by girls under the age of 18. https://news.24.com/City_Press/City_Press_News/0,1885,186-187_1023654,00.html