Peru’s Centre-Right Government Promotes Life

LIMA, July 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Peru’s centre-right government is promoting safe pregnancy and childbirth, in a country where the ousted Fujimori government’s population control policy included forcible sterilization of the poor.  Health Minister Fernando Carbone and Prime Minister Luis Solari stand accused of “pushing their conservative Roman Catholic philosophy by promoting motherhood and cutting off free contraceptives and birth-control information to the poor,” according to a report from Newsday.  But Fujimori himself imposed his sterilization philosophy on the poor and the same critics were silent.  Carbone, whose office is decorated with glossy posters promoting “the child to be born,” himself said: “We have used helicopters and ambulances, all imaginable means to save lives. Our aim is to guarantee a safe, secure pregnancy and birth.”  For Newsday coverage:  https://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-family-planning,0,5453695.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines