Population control groups are pushing their agenda in Tanzania to promote abortion, contraception and sterilization under the guise of reducing poverty.
"It really stretches credibility to say that Bush or his people wouldn’t have known that the foundation pushes abortion and other population control efforts."
Of the 1,000 non-governmental organizations, HLI Tanzania may be the one most directly threatened by the government action, given its effectiveness in raising public concern about the referendum.
Pro-lifers are appealing to the government to include constitutional clauses that respect life from the moment of conception until natural death, traditional marriage, and the natural family as the basic cell of human society.
'Those who criticize the constitution risk being banned from the air waves and will have to fight legal action instituted against them,' said Emil Hagamu, regional director of English-speaking Africa for HLI.
established a clinic dispensing the abortion-inducing drug misoprostol in rural Tanzania despite what one staffer called “the restricting legal context.”