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i have a question to ask, i know someone who is thinking of donating 20$ to Unicef, but is hesitant because of unicef’s stance on abortion…would it be proper to donate to unicef to help feed hungry children? here is an article they sent me:
zenit.org/english/archive/0010/ZE001022.html#item7
UNICEF HALLOWEEN FUND BACKS ABORTION
Once Supported by Holy See, a U.N. Group Has Changed Its Focus
NEW YORK, OCT. 22, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- Millions of children trick-or-treating
this Halloween in the United States will be toting little donation boxes,
asking for money for the U.N. Children’s Fund to help poor children of the
world.
What they don’t know is that they will be helping to fund abortion,
contraception and sterilization programs in the Third World.
So says the National Catholic Register in its Oct. 22-29 edition. It
highlighted the lesser-known work of UNICEF, which is famous for providing
food, water and basic medical care to children in the developed world.
Controversy simmering in El Salvador this month over a sex-education program
sponsored by UNICEF is adding to what critics say is an anti-family,
pro-abortion image of UNICEF foreign aid, the Register said.
Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador has from the pulpit
denounced a 170-page sex-education booklet designed by UNICEF and El
Salvador’s Ministries of Health and Education for training adolescents on
sexuality issues including contraception, homosexuality and abortion, the
Register reporter.
“The dignity of people, institutions such as marriage and the rights of the
family are all practically demolished with this document,” he told Catholic
News Service Oct. 6.
The archbishop described illustrations in the manual intended for training
6,000 El Salvador youth to instruct their peers as “insinuating and
grotesque.”
“I haven’t seen it,” Liza Barrie, a UNICEF spokeswoman in New York, said of
the manual entitled “From Adolescents to Adolescents,” the Register
reported.
Two thousand copies of the manual were printed last year and “about 1,000”
were distributed before “objections were raised to some of the content,” she
told the Register. It covered topics including homosexuality, bisexuality
and masturbation, she told the newspaper.
Further distribution of the guide was temporarily halted in August as a
result of public opposition to it, Barrie said, and the text is “being
revised,” the Register said.
Barrie downplayed the role of UNICEF in the sex-education program, however,
claiming it was one of more than a dozen collaborators and distributors of
the manual, along with groups such as World Vision, Save the Children, the
World Health Organization and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities.
“UNICEF and Planned Parenthood are two of a kind,” Winifride Prestwich, a
founding member of the Canadian political pro-life lobby Campaign Life
Coalition, told the Register.
She authored a 1995 booklet, “UNICEF: Guilty as Charged,” which documents
the agency’s cooperation with population-control groups including
International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Health Organization,
the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and the Population Council to
support contraceptive, abortion and sterilization campaigns.
“UNICEF was formed [by the United Nations in 1946] to take care of the
war-torn children of China and Europe,” Prestwich told the Register. “It
began as a very noble, worthy cause but it was swept up during the '60s in
the old Malthusian theory that overpopulation is leading to world doom, and
it strayed very far from its original mandate.”
Over the years, UNICEF has participated in the distribution of millions of
abortifacient IUDs and contraceptives in countries such as Pakistan and
China.
In 1987, UNICEF formally endorsed a recommendation that “legal, good quality
abortion services should be made easily accessible to all women.” By 1992,
UNICEF was lobbying for abortion in some countries where it is still
illegal, the Register said.
part 2 next…
zenit.org/english/archive/0010/ZE001022.html#item7
UNICEF HALLOWEEN FUND BACKS ABORTION
Once Supported by Holy See, a U.N. Group Has Changed Its Focus
NEW YORK, OCT. 22, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- Millions of children trick-or-treating
this Halloween in the United States will be toting little donation boxes,
asking for money for the U.N. Children’s Fund to help poor children of the
world.
What they don’t know is that they will be helping to fund abortion,
contraception and sterilization programs in the Third World.
So says the National Catholic Register in its Oct. 22-29 edition. It
highlighted the lesser-known work of UNICEF, which is famous for providing
food, water and basic medical care to children in the developed world.
Controversy simmering in El Salvador this month over a sex-education program
sponsored by UNICEF is adding to what critics say is an anti-family,
pro-abortion image of UNICEF foreign aid, the Register said.
Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador has from the pulpit
denounced a 170-page sex-education booklet designed by UNICEF and El
Salvador’s Ministries of Health and Education for training adolescents on
sexuality issues including contraception, homosexuality and abortion, the
Register reporter.
“The dignity of people, institutions such as marriage and the rights of the
family are all practically demolished with this document,” he told Catholic
News Service Oct. 6.
The archbishop described illustrations in the manual intended for training
6,000 El Salvador youth to instruct their peers as “insinuating and
grotesque.”
“I haven’t seen it,” Liza Barrie, a UNICEF spokeswoman in New York, said of
the manual entitled “From Adolescents to Adolescents,” the Register
reported.
Two thousand copies of the manual were printed last year and “about 1,000”
were distributed before “objections were raised to some of the content,” she
told the Register. It covered topics including homosexuality, bisexuality
and masturbation, she told the newspaper.
Further distribution of the guide was temporarily halted in August as a
result of public opposition to it, Barrie said, and the text is “being
revised,” the Register said.
Barrie downplayed the role of UNICEF in the sex-education program, however,
claiming it was one of more than a dozen collaborators and distributors of
the manual, along with groups such as World Vision, Save the Children, the
World Health Organization and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities.
“UNICEF and Planned Parenthood are two of a kind,” Winifride Prestwich, a
founding member of the Canadian political pro-life lobby Campaign Life
Coalition, told the Register.
She authored a 1995 booklet, “UNICEF: Guilty as Charged,” which documents
the agency’s cooperation with population-control groups including
International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Health Organization,
the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and the Population Council to
support contraceptive, abortion and sterilization campaigns.
“UNICEF was formed [by the United Nations in 1946] to take care of the
war-torn children of China and Europe,” Prestwich told the Register. “It
began as a very noble, worthy cause but it was swept up during the '60s in
the old Malthusian theory that overpopulation is leading to world doom, and
it strayed very far from its original mandate.”
Over the years, UNICEF has participated in the distribution of millions of
abortifacient IUDs and contraceptives in countries such as Pakistan and
China.
In 1987, UNICEF formally endorsed a recommendation that “legal, good quality
abortion services should be made easily accessible to all women.” By 1992,
UNICEF was lobbying for abortion in some countries where it is still
illegal, the Register said.
part 2 next…
