The Benson County Farmers’ Press
Tuesday, December 7, 2005

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Give Food, Not Contraceptives

Dear Sir:

What do you provide for children who are suffering from poverty and without food, clothing and medicine?

Worldwide we have UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), which since the 60’s began funding contraceptives, abortifacients and sterilization.

Besides naming China “the most baby friendly country in the world” for maintaining a “one child policy” that uses rooms where little girls and toddlers are left to die, UNICEF joined the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and WHO (World Health Organization), both of whom have strong ties to Planned Parenthood International.

Abortion advocates, in a similar offer of help after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, were willing to provide “morning after pills” and free abortions, instead of food, shelter and money to rebuild. Planned Parenthood used the disaster to raise funds for itself to rebuild its abortion business that had been damaged.

Planned Parenthood apparently provides a vicious cartoon video in which a superhero woman flies into a peaceful pro-life demonstration and lops off their heads. I take that personally!

Luckily there is a sign of hope. Former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, who became the executive director of UNICEF on May 1, when asked about UNICEF’s reproductive “health” agenda replied, “I don’t believe those issues are relevant to the missions of UNICEF.”

Good! Someone who addresses the poverty of children with clothing, medicine and food.

Check this information in the newsletter Life Matters (Vol. 32, #4) FROM Friends For Life, Inc, 2010 Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY 13219.

Helen Shatynski, RN, Brinsmade, ND 58351
Member, California Nurses for Ethical Standards

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