“Peruvian health minister Pilar Mazzetti is moving forward with her scheme to introduce the abortifacient morning-after pill for distribution in public health clinics despite the constitution’s protection of human life from conception onwards.
“In June of this year, Carlos Polo, writing for the Population Research Institute from Lima, said that the simultaneous emergence of the morning after pill in Latin American countries where abortion is supposed to be outlawed is no coincidence. The World Health Organization is working with USAID, International Planned Parenthood and other population control organizations to introduce the drug to Peru and a number of other predominantly Catholic South and Central American countries.
“In August 2003, 6,000 Peruvians marched demanding that President Alejandro Toledo not only overrule Mazzetti’s project but also fire her for lying about the non-abortifacient effect of the drug. A Peruvian research physician and pro-life leader, Dr. Raul Cantella, said, ‘Mazzetti expresses perfectly the “baby steps” abortion promoters are taking in the region to legalize abortion.’”
“Peru’s Health Minister is Pushing Froward with Morning-After Pill,” LifeSiteNews.com, 12 October 2004.
“Several pro-life organizations urged the U.S. FDA to ban Danco Laboratories’ permission to sell Mifepristone in USA because it can be dangerous to the health of the women taking the drug. “Joseph D’Agostino, Vice President for Communications at PRI, stated…one of the reported deaths to FDA was that of Holly Patterson, an 18-year-old who died in California when she filled the prescription following the directions of the abortionist who saw her. She had no health problems before she took the pill.
“According to D’Agostino, at least three American women are known to have died as a result of taking this drug, but it is also known that the number of deaths should be higher as in many cases, the link between the drug and the death of its user cannot be clearly established.”
“FDA was urged to ban RU-486 based on a woman’s death,” Aciprensa (Spanish Catholic News Agency), translated by Carlos Polo, 23 November 2004.
