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Vatican to UN: Be “Sane” and Get out of the Population Control Business
By John-Henry Westen
NEW YORK, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Pope Benedict XVI’s representative to the United Nations, addressed the 39th session of the Commission on Population and Development yesterday delivering a stinging criticism about the UN population control agenda. “In years gone by,” explained the Archbishop, “dire predictions as to the future composition and sustainability of the projected human global population led to radical population policies which have in turn been responsible for different but equally grave dilemmas such as the serious problems brought about by falling birth rates, and the creation of imbalances between men and women in the population, with its own social consequences.”
“If the development of the world’s peoples is to be both sustainable and sane,” continued Archbishop Migliore, “such flawed policies will have to be replaced by truly people-centred ones.”
Despite the clamour for population control which still comes from the abortion-pushing United Nations Population Fund, another branch of the United Nations reports in a largely unbiased fashion on population trends and has warned for years that underpopulation rather than overpopulation is of great concern.
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By John-Henry Westen
NEW YORK, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Pope Benedict XVI’s representative to the United Nations, addressed the 39th session of the Commission on Population and Development yesterday delivering a stinging criticism about the UN population control agenda. “In years gone by,” explained the Archbishop, “dire predictions as to the future composition and sustainability of the projected human global population led to radical population policies which have in turn been responsible for different but equally grave dilemmas such as the serious problems brought about by falling birth rates, and the creation of imbalances between men and women in the population, with its own social consequences.”
“If the development of the world’s peoples is to be both sustainable and sane,” continued Archbishop Migliore, “such flawed policies will have to be replaced by truly people-centred ones.”
Despite the clamour for population control which still comes from the abortion-pushing United Nations Population Fund, another branch of the United Nations reports in a largely unbiased fashion on population trends and has warned for years that underpopulation rather than overpopulation is of great concern.
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