Hello Steven,
Let me send you once more many greetings from the Czech Republic and ask you to send me more exact quotations of the studies mentioned in this information [PRI Weekly Briefing, 4 August 2006, Vol. 8, No. 30, “Senate Democrats’ Make-Believe on Girls’ Abortions”].
We all know the situation is just as described, but in discussions the hard data from studies or official statistics can help very much. Please, send to me where, other than the Congress hearing, the studies were published or if you have them for distribution, please send them to me.
With thanks.
Dr. Matusima Frantisek
Czech Republic
Steven,
Thanks for you continued vigilance and updates.
Nick
California
Dear PRI,
Many greetings from Indonesia. Please continue to send me the PRI Review, which I translate into Indonesian because only a few people here on Flores can understand the English language. After 25 years of working and planting pro-life and Natural Family Planning seeds I am beginning to see results. In the past, old couples were forced to accept artificial methods, but younger couples have seen the side effects, and are open to accepting the natural way.
The Indonesian National Family Planning Association is very worried about this trend. They are failing to meet their targets [for contraceptive acceptance], and they have asked me, “Can we work together?” It’s okay. If they list NFP acceptors in their statistics, there is a way to work together. Of course, I continue to propagate only NFP.
There is the beginning of a network against abortion, and also against the methods of contraception that cause abortion.
Now the Australian government, through AUSAID [the Australian aid agency], is working with the government to promote IUDs and condoms to teenagers in middle schools. We are offended by this program, and strongly oppose it. We are intensifying our outreach to the students themselves, so that they are informed about these programs and can take a stand against them.
There are many sister congregations coming into Indonesia from the outside, from the Philippines and from Italy. They are gathering many girls together, recruiting them for their orders.
I will try to involve these girls in our pro-life work, for all of them — there are forty or fifty in all — will not enter the order. Those who go back to their villages can become pro-life co-workers in our network.
To go out on patrol visiting the mission stations this year is nearly impossible because the roads are too bad. So there is time for reorganizing.
Yours faithfully,
Sister Robertilde
Indonesia
You say that any woman 18+ will be able to buy Plan B? What about the pharmacist’s right to refuse to fill a prescription? [In response to PRI Weekly Briefing 11 August 2006, Vol. 8, No. 31, “FDA Prepares Sell-Out on MAP”]
Stacey Johnson
Georgia
Dear Mr. Mosher,
One of the Family Life Commission members told us about a barangay [local area] where the UNFPA had a grand ligation and vasectomy campaign because they were in a hurry to justify the money they had taken and they had not any records to show to the visiting population control group.
There were peso bills as bait for accomplishing the forced procedures. This was in a remote rural area.… I hope to be able to witness a campaign but they are so sneaky taking advantage of the poor, ignorant people.
Sr. Marie Martha T. Orencio
Philippines
Dear Mr. Mosher,
Yours are excellent reports [PRI Weekly Briefings]. I forward them to many others. God bless you all.
Fr. David P. Bertolotti
New York
