Pro-Life UN Group Thanks Bush for Mexico City Policy
New York, NY -- "President Bush's decision to
reinstate Mexico City language sends a strong and
immediate message to the world that the United
States will no longer be at the fore-front of
spreading abortion to countries that do not want
it," said Austin Ruse, President of the Catholic
Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM).
"Mexico City language," decided upon by the Reagan
administration in 1984 prohibits American taxpayer
money from supporting groups that perform or lobby
for abortion in foreign countries. Most US funds
have been funneled through the US Agency for
International Development, which directly supports
groups that both perform abortions and lobby
foreign governments to change abortion laws.
"In my experience at the United Nations, both
diplomats and regular citizens around the world
have come to believe that Americans hate them,"
said Ruse. "This is because of the previous
Administration's aggressive support of the spread
of abortion to the developing world through
financing of such extremist abortion groups as
International Planned Parenthood Federation."
"This is a positive first step," said Ruse. "We
expect this is only a first step in what will be a
pro-life and pro-family foreign policy of the new
president. C-FAM will work vigorously at the U.N
to support such a policy, and I am certain this
move will be welcomed by the sometimes beleaguered
foreign governments who want strong and growing
families."
C-FAM works directly with dozens of foreign
governments in development of UN resolutions.
Source: The Pro-Life Infonet,
infonet@prolifeinfo.org
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