UN Pro-Abortion Hostile to Bush

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Radicals Attack Bush Because of UN Pro-life Stance

International advocates of abortion and population control are showing increasing frustration with the staunchly pro-life and pro-family positions of the Bush administration, even claiming that President Bush has declared "war on women around the globe."

In a November 16 column in the Toronto Star, Michele Landsberg, wife of former UNICEF Executive Director for External Relations Stephen Lewis, unleashed a scathing attack on Bush administration international policy, as well as upon President Bush, himself. In her column, Landsberg calls Bush "this ignorant man, now hailed as ‘shrewd’ because he won the election on the backs of the World Trade Centre victims…" She claims that Bush is engaged in a "war on women around the globe…Bush is gearing up to police the wombs of the world’s women…" Landsberg concludes by predicting that "America, once a beacon of feminist achievement, will become a dread example of what can happen when religion and politics entwine to waltz us back to the Dark Ages."

In a recent statement, Dr. Steven Sinding, Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), asserted that "the Bush administration threatens to turn the clock back 40 years with respect to access to health care and education for women. I call upon IPPF’s partners and IPPF’s members in more than 150 countries worldwide to act on your outrage, for the sake of the world’s women. Mobilise your governments and policymakers; voice your concerns; we cannot let such cynical, destructive and retrograde actions go unchallenged."

Critics are incensed by a number of positions taken by the Bush administration that reverse the Clinton administration’s international support for abortion. For instance, when a Canadian delegate during this year’s UN Child Summit admitted that reproductive health services for children would include abortion, the administration successfully opposed the inclusion of this phrase in the final document. Recently, the administration stated that it would not reaffirm its support for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development until "reproductive health services" was deleted from the document, since the phrase was now explicitly linked to abortion. And, perhaps most egregious to its critics, the administration cut all US funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) when a US investigation determined that UNFPA still supported forced abortion in China.

Dear Colleague,

Today is all action item: each of the twenty thousand subscribers to the Friday Fax should immediately e-mail President George W. Bush to thank him for his steadfast protection of the unborn at the UN. President Bush and his team at the State Department are coming under increasing and vociferous attack by radicals in the United States and around the world. Please write to President Bush at [email protected] and thank him for all he has done for the unborn and for the family. This really counts, so do it now.

Spread the word.

Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse President

Pro-life observers have sprung to the administration’s defense. William Saunders, a senior fellow at Family Research Council, told the Friday Fax that "There is no reason on earth why a pro-family, pro-life Bush administration should be bound by the moral compromises of the Clinton era." Saunders is pleased that the administration is steadfast in exposing the pro-abortion strategy employed at the UN. "The tragedy of the UN is that words are used to disguise, rather than to illuminate. The Bush administration is simply telling the UN to be clear, to say what it means, to stop hiding behind euphemisms," he said.

FRIDAY FAX
November 29, 2002 Volume 5, Number 49

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