When all else fails, try a whopper

• Published in: Alberta report Vol. 26; no. 39; p. 37
• Main Author: Woodard, Joe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edmonton United Western Communications 11.10.1999
• Subjects: Birth control; Population; Roman Catholic Church; Sadik, Nafis
• ISSN: 0225-0519

Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic invited UNFPA into Kosovo, but not greater Yugoslavia, to "family plan" among the Albanian majority, but not the Serbian minority. And Ms. Sadik's agency co-operated with Yugoslavia in this selective program. "UNFPA may lose its U.S. funding again over this one," says Mr. Ruse. The U.S. pays for a tenth of the agency's $295-million budget, he says, but last year the agency lost that contribution over its support of China's Draconian population program. Joan Broughton, a program officer with the UN Association of Canada, says Ms. Sadik may have thought her remarks were conciliatory. "At Cairo, the Vatican was joined by the countries they influence-the Catholic countries-and the fundamentalist Muslems, to block reproductive rights, but frankly they lost," she says. "So now, at the Cairo+5 meetings, we didn't see the same obstructionism, and frankly that was nice. Family planning has won." New Yorker Fr. John Neuhaus, publisher of the religious and political journal First Things, still finds Ms. Sadik's behaviour bizarre. "As one of those people with grandiose plans for world government, she may have run ahead of herself," he suggests. For years, globalists have recognized that the "population bomb" is a myth, but it's a lie they continue to trot out, to promote both their "women's agenda" and bureaucratic expansion, he observes. "Can she any longer distinguish between truth and lie?"