Brazilian Kidnapping Heist
Three men kidnapped a pregnant woman, induced labor and stole her baby, according to Brazilian police. The mother told police that she heard her baby cry but was never allowed to see the child. Police believe that the child was taken to be sold overseas.
Six days after the woman’s kidnapping her family received a phone call from a man who said, “We have Isabel and she won’t be hurt. We only want the baby because we need six and we only have two.”
The federal police released a report last year that said 3,000 Brazilian children are “exported” every year, only half through legal adoptions. The others are kidnapped or bought from their poor mothers, and then sent abroad for prices up to $20,000 according to the report (The Miami Herald, 29 March 1992).
Happy Easter to Ecuador from the USAID Easter Hare! (Real Bunnies Are Too Smart To Use This Stuff)
The United States Agency for International Development has done it again! A shipment of 174 cartons of contraceptives were shipped from New Orleans on the Stella Lykes, Voyage 16. The shipment, which was scheduled to leave on the evening of 27 April 1992, contained four pallets of cartons wrapped in black plastic. Two pallets were listed as having 60 cartons code #6906; one pallet had 15 cartons #9693 and 21 cartons #9694; one pallet had six cartons #6906; two cartons #9694; and ten cartons #8922. The pallets were marked with dock receipt #8947… Guayaquil. Each pallet had a sticker showing it as a donation from the people of the USA, illustrated by hands clasped against the background of an American flag.
The canons were shipped from Matrix International, 205 South Whiting Street, Suite 500, Alexandria, Virginia 22304, USA. Matrix has a $6,400,000 contract with USAID (#DPE-3018-C–00-9025-00) for freight-forwarding/warehousing services for contraceptives. The destination of the shipment was Asocion Pro-Beenestar de La Familia Ecuatoriana (an IPPP affiliate), Noguchi 1516 y Letamendi, Aoartado Postal 5954, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
43 Million Americans Have Incurable Sex Diseases
The U.S. Federal Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 43 million Americans may have acquired incurable sexually transmitted viral infections. These infections — 30 million cases of genital herpes, 12 million cases of genital warts and 1 million HIV-infections are in addition to the millions of curable diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, the CDC said in the report.
The 174-page report, “Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 1990,” revealed that 12 million people contract a sexually transmitted infection each year in the United States, with two-thirds of the cases occurring in individuals under 25 (New York Post, 7 October 1991).
Planned Parenthood Pushes Condoms in Canada
Planned Parenthood is pushing for condom dispensers in Canadian municipal buildings such as arenas and community centers, as well as in bars and restaurants across the region. So far, only Kanata and Ottawa have supported the move.
“The other municipalities have ignored us on this issue,” said Edgar Simpson, president of Planned Parenthood’s board of directors. He continued, “I’m dumbfounded that they would be taking that attitude.”
Gloucester Councilman Richard Cantin, chairman of the Health Committee, said he’s in favor of condom dispensers, “It’s not going to encourage people to have sex, but it certainly can prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases,” he said (The Ottawa Citizen, 13 May 1992).
Bush Issues Executive Order to Create Human Fetal Tissue Bank
“As directed by Bush, only tissue from spontaneous abortions or ectopic pregnancies would be used for implants in the Human Fetal Tissue Bank. Many medical experts and members of Congress favor using the human tissue from induced abortions as well.
“Bush ordered establishment of the tissue bank as the administration reiterated his vow to veto a measure on Capitol Hill that would allow research with tissue from induced abortions. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary James Mason told reporters that funding for the first year of the bank would be $3 million. He said that it would be under the supervision of the National Institutes of Health, and have up to 10 regional centers nationwide” (UPI, 19 May 1992).
UNICEF Worldwide Campaign Promotes Breast-Feeding in Japan
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a breast-feeding campaign two years ago awarding the status “baby-friendly” to hospitals that promote breast-feeding. But only Okayama National Hospital in southern Japan has so far earned the title “baby-friendly.” The reason for the reluctance of Japanese institutions to become involved in breast-feeding programs is ostensibly due to the pressures of leading transnational infant formula companies (IPS, Tokyo, 19 May 1992).
While this may be so, it is also true that UNICEF and WHO promote breast-feeding because of its contraceptive effect. In addition, a publication produced by the NGO committee for UNICEF states that there is a “complementarity” between contraceptive usage and breast-feeding. The major message presented is, “breastfeeding is necessary for fertility control and family planning is necessary to allow sufficient duration of breastfeeding; they are mutually beneficial and form a vital complementarity” (Breastfeeding: The Passport To Life, NGO committee on UNICEF, editor Naomi Baumslag, p. 50–4).
In a country like Japan, where resistance to oral contraceptives exists, there may also be a reluctance to follow the UNICEF/WHO model of mixing the two, particularly since the long-term effects of contraceptives on nursing infants is not known.
Muslim Arab World Links Population Growth Rate to Women’s Status
Mohammed Nizamuddin, UNFPA’s Chief of Population Data, Policy and Research insists that high fertility among Islami women is not related to religious objections to contraceptives but to the status of women. “In the countries where the status of women is better, as in Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt, the movement of family planning services is faster and more successful,” Nizamuddin said.
In 1988, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University announced a major “fatwa” (religious legal opinion), affirming the acceptability of family planning “for personal and national justification.” It was decreed that contraceptive use could be sanctioned “in the case of a three child family who can afford more children physically and financially, but who want no more children because their country has a population problem.
“The UNFPA has been supporting projects on ‘Population in the Context of Islam’ since the 1970s, in cooperation with Al-Azhar’s International Center for Population Studies and Research” (IPS, 20 May 1992).
Maastricht Treaty Faces Uncertain Times
“After a year of secretive negotiations…the Maastricht treaty on European union faces uncertainties as it looms before national parliaments for ratification.
“Parliaments in 10 of the 12 European states must take a crucial vote on the blueprint for political and monetary union .… Up to eight countries may have to amend their constitutions to conform to the treaty .…
“The ambassador of one European Community state, discussing when the treaty could be ratified, pointedly qualified his remarks during a meeting last week by saying ‘if’ the treaty is ratified” (Brussels, 23 April 1992, Reuter).
Farmer Executed for Attacking Family Planning Official
A farmer was executed in south China for injuring three family planning officials by hurling acid at them when they tried to persuade his wife to have an abortion. The Canton-based Yangcheng Evening News reported that, “The (family planning) activists implemented the abortion decision by working for five hours at Lin Zhishan’s home giving them thought education.” The farmer became enraged over the coercion, picked up a bottle of sulphuric acid from the counter and threw it directly in the faces of the officials. Three of the officials were disfigured in the attack (UPI 10 April 1992).
Foundation Giving — USA
Periodically, this column will provide information on grants of U.S. Foundations involved in the population control field. One of the lesser known foundations involved in this activity is the Connecticut-based Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
For 1990–91, the Public Welfare Foundation made the following grants: Center for Population Options, $35,000; Centro Para Los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende. A.C. Guanajuato, Mexico, $25,000; Family Center, Massachusetts, $40,000; Friends of the Family, Maryland, $109,000; Hartford Action Plan for Adolescent Pregnancy, $32,000; Harundale Youth and Family Service Center Teen Pregnancy Project, $25,000; La Leche league International…Guatemala and Honduras, $20,000; Marie Stopes International in Kenya and Sierra Leone, $95,000; Medina Children’s Service, $20,000; National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, $25,000; Pathfinder Fund, Massachusetts, $101,500; Pendleton Community Care, West Virginia, $40,000; Planned Parenthood Associations in the U.S., $402,800; Population Crisis Committee, $75,000; Sex Information Council of the United States, $40,000; Three Rivers Youth, Pennsylvania, $35,000; and Youth Health Service, West Virginia, $35,000.
The Irish Case
“The special Irish protocol to the Maastricht Treaty on European Unity has become the focus for pro and anti-abortion forces in Ireland. The protocol — which declares that abortion law in Ireland will not be superceded by European Community law (EC) — will only become effective when Maastricht is ratified. Then the EC decisions on abortion (ep. Grogan v SPUC allowing abortion clinics to advertise in Ireland as long as their agents are paid) will be null and void. Consequently Irish pro-abortionists have tried to get the wording of the protocol changed to grant the right to travel and the right to information, while the pro-life lobby is trying to oppose Maastricht altogether. The protocol now differs in effect from its original intention because of the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation.
“It is likely that the Maastricht referendum will be held in July as the government delays and tries to convince the Irish people that subsidiary means the retention of culture and identity — and that the loss of 3 billion pounds over the next five years from Europe is too high a price to pay for pro-Life principles” (Feminists Against Eugenics Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 1).
