LIFE ISSUES NO. 2840

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 

(UNFPA AND UNICEF)

Do I understand that the UNFPA is very, very pro-abortion?  Yes, you do.  UNFPA (the United Nations Fund for Population Activity) is deeply involved in the genocidal abortion program in China and in other nations.  And we have been subsidizing this under our pro-abortion presidents.  Both Reagan and the elder Bush took the funding away from it.  Currently, funding under President George W. is in controversy.

Okay, UNFPA is solidly pro-abortion, but what about UNICEF.  They come around and want money, and I know a lot of people who have been giving them money.  Well, let me answer that.  As it turns out, they too are pro-abortion.

But how could that be?  They’re a children’s fund, and they’re pro-abortion?  They did start out as a very innocent and a very deserving branch of the United Nations.  Originally, they had nothing at all to do with abortion.  Originally, they gave money to help children in Third World countries, but that has changed.

Tell me how?  C-FAM (the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute) has an office at the United Nations in New York.  It isn’t only Catholic.  It serves as the central office for the pro-life lobbying that all of us do at the U.N. in New York.  Mr. Austin Ruse is in charge of that office.  His group has recently become involved with UNICEF.

In what way?  They’ve called upon the U.S. Congress and President Bush to formally investigate UNICEF because of its promotion of abortion overseas.  You know, it’s against the law for U.S. money to be used to support abortion overseas, but UNICEF is doing exactly that. 

Give us an example.  C-FAM has recently discovered that UNICEF gives major funding to a South African group called “Love Life.”  This group explicitly promotes abortion.  Its website says that children “don’t need permission from anybody to have an abortion.”  It describes abortion as a “gentle suction”, and that afterwards the girl will feel “a sense of relief”, and that she should then celebrate by having “gentle sex” with her boyfriend. 

So it supports abortion.  And what else?  Mr. Ruse says that the site describes sex, “including homosexual sex”, in very graphic and approving terms.  It also urges young girls to begin masturbating so that they can become what the website calls “super lovers.”  Then the UNICEF website directs readers to a toll-free number for Marie Stopes International, an English group which is one of the largest abortion providers in the world.

And we give this outfit money?  Yes, U.S. taxpayers pony up $1 million every year for UNICEF.  The U.S. is the largest single donor.  UNICEF then gives this money to support groups, as you’ve heard, with ideas that would appall the typical American.  And so, C-FAM is urging the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress to investigate UNICEF.

Well, they’re certainly not going to be selling me any cards or cookies.   Great—and let’s urge everyone else listening to quit supporting them in the same way.

[05/24/02]