Prevent Legalization of Abortion In Sri Lanka
The United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), together with radical feminists in local NGOs, have produced a Bill on Women’s Rights for Sri Lanka.
This bill is a means to legalize abortion in Sri Lanka by incorporating the rights recognized by CEDAW into national law.
CEDAW has as its objective the implementation of prostitution, mandatory sex education and the provision for birth control drugs and devices for children, and lesbianism — in addition to unrestricted abortion. CEDAW also requires changing the traditional family, reducing care for mothers and pregnant women and rewriting school textbooks to indoctrinate children with its feminist ideology. CEDAW further requires that nations change their laws and even their national constitutions in order to comply.
More information is available at http://ilata.blogspot.com/2005/01/cedaw-ideology-and-strategy-of-deceit.html.
An international campaign of resistance to protest against the enactment of the Sri Lanka Bill on Women’s Rights, through which abortion will be legalized, is underway. This country is being faced with a tragedy far greater than the tsunami.
Esham Dias, Ph.D. (Cantab)
President, Cultura Vitae
Chairman, Human Right to Life Committee, 25 January 2005
Abortion-Cancer Link Lawsuit
The U.S.’ second abortion-cancer link lawsuit was successfully prosecuted recently. The lawsuit against an abortion clinic and the physician who performed an abortion on a 15-year-old girl without informing her of the psychological and increased breast cancer risks was the first such case to receive a settlement and so a judgment.
The plaintiff indicated she had a family history of breast cancer on the clinic intake forms. According to research by Janet Daling and others at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, teenagers under the age of 18 with a family history of breast cancer who have abortions have a high breast cancer risk later in life.
We think that the dam may be about to break on the abortion-breast cancer link. Too many women have suffered and the scientific evidence is too strong for the pro-abortion side to prevent juries from awarding damages in more such cases.
See the Source: “Second Abortion-Cancer Lawsuit in US. Successfully Prosecuted,” Christian Wire Service, 26 January 2005.
Hispanic family Size in USA Shrinking
While Hispanic immigrants are presently helping to bolster the U.S. birthrate, the long tradition of large Hispanic families may fast be becoming a thing of the past.
Hispanic couples are starting to follow the lead of others in their new home-land and many now consider one or two children a completed family.
As Hispanics become Americanized and are far away from home, the family, social and religious pressures of their homeland to have larger families decreases. They want to live as their American neighbors with fewer children.
The average Hispanic family, though, is still larger than the national average: 3.87 people per Hispanic family, while the national average for all families is 3.19 people.
As experts see that so many second-generation Hispanics plan on having smaller families, demographers have projected that the birthrates in states with high Hispanic populations will decrease in the future, following the trends already seen in California and Florida.
For example, in California, demographers decreased their population estimates for 2040 by nearly 7 million, pointing to the continuing drop in the fertility rate among Hispanics, according to the California Department of Finance’s Demographic Research Unit. The fertility rate in that state was 2.6 children per woman in 2003, down from 3.4 children in 1990.
Recent trends in Mexico, where many of these immigrants were born, also show a decline in the number of children women are bearing. The fertility rate in Mexico now is 2.1 children per family.
Many Americans talk of the need for immigrants’ assimilation for the continued unity and stability of the United States, but this is an area where assimilation works against one of the primary advantages of immigration in the first place: the provision of population and labor in a country whose native population is less and less inclined to have children.
See the Source: Helena Olivrero, “As Hispanics embrace life in U.S., some prefer to limit family size,” Middletown Journal, 16 January 2005.
