Dear Colleague:

Halloween is just around the corner, and once again UN Children's Fund is
recruiting millions of little children to fundraise on its behalf.  But if
a cute little ballerina (or superman) comes to your door bearing a little
orange box marked UNICEF, give them candy instead of coins.  The UN
Children's Fund, which promotes abortion, sterilization and contraception,
does not deserve to have its coffers fattened.  Read on.

Steven W. Mosher
President

PRI Weekly Briefing
18 October 2004
Volume 6 / Number 32

UNICEF: The Mask is Off!

For several decades the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has used
children to fundraise on its behalf, collecting over $100 million in
nickels, dimes and quarters.  Having children "Trick or treat for UNICEF,"
as the slogan went, was seen as a way for privileged American children to
help poor, hungry and sick boys and girls elsewhere.

But today's UNICEF is not the same organization it was as recently as ten
years ago.  Where it once spent its energies on child survival, primary
health care, and development, it is now heavily into family planning and
sex education. In the words of a recent Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute (C-FAM) report, "UNICEF now engages in a number of controversial
programs centered upon the promotion of a radical feminist ideology."[1]

UNICEF has become just one more UN organization run by an unholy alliance
of radical feminists and population controllers, who apparently believe
that promoting the "reproductive and sexual rights" of children is more
important than providing them with clean water, decent food and legitimate
medical care.  The Vatican, dismayed by this turn of events, withdrew its
support from UNICEF in 1996.

Let me give you some specifics, starting with abortion. UNICEF denies
promoting abortion, but it has endorsed, and even helped to draft,
documents that call for the legalization of abortion.  The organization
also approves of the distribution of abortion-causing "emergency
contraception" to refugee women.

UNICEF also helps to fund organizations that promote abortions.  One such
organization is the Population Council, the group which holds the U.S.
patent for the "abortion pill" RU-486.  Another is a South African group
called LoveLife, which actively encourages teenage girls to have
abortions.

LoveLife provides a toll free number to Marie Stopes International
abortion clinics, recommending abortion "... if you are happy to pay for
the services.  Remember, it is your right to get counseling [and] an
abortion. If people are unhelpful, don't get discouraged. Keep trying. You
don't need permission from anybody to have an abortion."  LoveLife, which
describes an abortion as a "gentle suction," encourages girls to "Talk to
someone--a health worker, a counselor, or someone you can trust."
Afterwards, LoveLife tells girls, "You will feel a sense of relief. Some
people like to do a ritual to end the process--light a candle, plant a
flower, write a poem or go for a long walk." No mention of post-abortion
trauma here, one is merely "ending a process," not taking the life of the
child.[2]

This is not your mom or dad's UNICEF.

This Halloween, "Trick or treat for UNICEF" is the scariest trick of all.

ENDNOTES

[1] Douglas A. Sylvia, The United Nations Children's Fund: Women or
Children First? C-FAM White Paper Series, 2003.  The quote is from the
Executive Summary, pp.1-2. http://www.c-fam.org/pdfs/unicef-execsum.pdf,

[2] Douglas A. Sylvia, The United Nations Children's Fund: Women or
Children First? pp. 26-27. It should be noted that LoveLife and UNICEF ran
for cover after their website was reported in the media, making
significant changes to the text. http://www.c-fam.org/pdfs/unicef.pdf
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