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"Senior governmental ministers and heads of state have convened this week at the UN in a final preparatory conference before September’s Millennium Summit+5. UN agencies and some countries have seized the occasion to exert new pressure for “reproductive health and rights” to be linked to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The outcome of the current Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) meetings is significant because this UN body will be responsible for monitoring the implementation of the MDGs.
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has been distributing a new report at this week’s ECOSOC meetings entitled “Reducing Poverty and Achieving the [MDGs]: Arguments for Investing in Reproductive Health & Rights,” that argues that “reproductive health care” and “sexual and reproductive health services,” which in “UNspeak” include abortion, are necessary to eradicate poverty and hunger, to combat AIDS, and even to ensure environmental sustainability by stabilizing population growth.
The report claims that child mortality will be reduced if there are fewer living children and calls for “reproductive rights” to achieve the goal of having fewer living children who then might get sick and die…"
cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38173
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has been distributing a new report at this week’s ECOSOC meetings entitled “Reducing Poverty and Achieving the [MDGs]: Arguments for Investing in Reproductive Health & Rights,” that argues that “reproductive health care” and “sexual and reproductive health services,” which in “UNspeak” include abortion, are necessary to eradicate poverty and hunger, to combat AIDS, and even to ensure environmental sustainability by stabilizing population growth.
The report claims that child mortality will be reduced if there are fewer living children and calls for “reproductive rights” to achieve the goal of having fewer living children who then might get sick and die…"
cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38173