Abortion versus safe drinking water |
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Rochester Area Right To Life |
Abortion versus safe drinking water
SPUC has condemned the British government for giving more bilateral overseas aid for abortion and population control than for clean drinking water. A newly-published government report indicates that the Department for International Development's 2001/02 bilateral funding commitments are �260 million for "reproductive health services", while "safe drinking water and adequate sanitation" are accorded only �78.8 million. "Reproductive health" is a term commonly used to include abortion, sterilisation and contraception. Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's political spokesman, asked: "How can the government justify spending almost three-and-a-half times more taxpayers' money on preventing the poor from being born than on saving their lives by giving them clean water? Water and food production are basic human needs, but the British government prefers to promote its fixed ideology of population control at the expense of the developing world." [SPUC media release, 6 December]
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 5-6 St Matthew Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1P 2JT, +44 20 7222 5845. The reliability of the news herein depends on that of the cited sources, which are paraphrased rather than quoted.
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