MOSHER WARNS SOME U.S. AIDS FUNDING MAY BE MISDIRECTED INTO ABORTION

FRONT ROYAL, February 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Population Research Institute president Dr. Steven Mosher is raising the alarm that some of President Bush’s $10 billion foreign-assistance program to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa could be channeled by pro-abortion bureaucrats into abortion-related programs.  “While a key part of this AIDS package would consist of basic aid, and even the promotion of abstinence,” Mosher writes in the Jan. 31 PRI Weekly Briefing, “what was not mentioned is that condoms are also a key part of this plan, and that many groups that provide or promote abortions would be responsible for implementing the program.” In Kenya, he says, “the USAID-funded NGO Family Health International (FHI) merely touches on abstinence before passing quickly to the marketing and distribution of oral and injectible contraceptives for women and teenagers. Women who say they practice abstinence are nonetheless encouraged to accept contraception, and the risks of contraceptives and the benefits of abstinence are not provided.”  Mosher says that, “Only groups that are solely dedicated to abstinence-and therefore have no hidden agenda-should be tasked with implementing this program.”  To visit PRI’s website see:  https://www.pop.org