NEW YORK, May 11 (C-FAM) The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news comes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to co-host a family planning summit with the British government in London this July. Melinda Gates recently dismissed the link between contraception programs and population control in a speech launching her new initiative. Titled “No Controversy,” her campaign intends to “change the global conversation around family planning” by discounting its association with abortion, coercion and immorality, and focusing on universal access. Around the same time, India’s supreme court heard evidence of coercive mass sterilizations in filthy conditions. Men and women are rounded up into makeshift rural camps to be sterilized, many left in pain with little or no care. Some women, sterilized while pregnant, suffered miscarriages. Some were bribed with less than $8 and a sari, others threatened with losing their ration cards. Some died from botched operations.
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By Piero Tozzi, J.D.
PHOENIX, May 11 (C-FAM) My colleagues at the Friday Fax reported last week that the “Latex Left” lost at the just ended UN Commission on the Population and Development, that they came away “empty handed.” With respect, I disagree with this assessment. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its allies scored a victory. What they got was a (non-binding) declaration setting funding priorities that calls for “comprehensive” sexual education for youth and adolescents, marginalized parental involvement, and increased funding for “reproductive health-care services, commodities and supplies.” The latter is a global industry projected to top $17 billion by 2015. Funding from the UN and donor nations translates to money not going to meet more pressing needs of the developing world, such as malaria elimination, infrastructure development and access to clean water – all concerns acknowledged in passing at CPD, while disproportionately focusing on sexual themes favored by the developed world.
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In an email received Ben Stein comments on place of God
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Some people seem to think that the Catholic Church is just
another multi-national corporation, Catholicism, Inc., with the
Pope as CEO. Obviously, this view is a bit skewed, but is
not totally off-base. The Church is in fact an international
organization. That’s actually one of the meanings of the word “Catholic”–
this church is no small sect limited to a particular ethnic enclave. Rather, is “universal,” intended to reach and include people from all nations.
That’s an important message of this Sunday’s first reading. Jesus mission was first foremost to the children of Israel. But notice that he never restricted his ministry to alone. In fact the person he pointed out as having more faith than just about anyone
else he’d met was not a Jew, but a Roman, the centurion whose servant he healed.
As with the master, so with the disciple. Peter, the Vicar of Christ,
meets another centurion who also exhibits faith and hunger for
God. Not only was he a Gentile, but he was an officer in the
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God sent his only Son
into the world so that we might have life through him. In this
is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent
his Son as expiation for our sins. 1st Jn 4:9b-10
In an email received Ben Stein comments on place of God
in society today.
