Irked Pope criticizes 
U.N. population plan(6/94)

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by Keith Wilkerson, editor
      John Paul II, his voice cracking with emotion, attacked a United 
Nations proposal that abortion be considered a health issue. 
Supporting his stand, "History will show one day how this 
inhumanity, so widespread among nations, is no less cruel than the 
attitudes and activities that the massacres carried out by Nazism," said 
Colombian church leader Alfonso Lopez-Trujillo, head of the Council 
for the Family.
      Before a crowd of tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square, John 
Paul pressed an attack he has been waging recently against a planned 
United Nations conference on population. He said women today are 
suffering "attacks against the life they are about to bring into the 
world."
       He prayed for God to defend "every human being in the maternal 
womb who is threatened and invited the faithful to pray for "the help 
needed in the battle against the forces of evil."
      He has recently waged an intense battle against a U.N. population 
conference to be held in Cairo in September. The White House said 
the Pope and President Clinton discussed abortion and the U.N. 
conference in a rare phone call. John Paul has been troubled by 
Clinton's views on abortion. After 12 years of Republican 
administrations opposed to using any funds for abortions, Clinton has 
liberalized U.S. policy dramatically. The U.N. conference is drawing up 
a 20-year plan to stabilize world population at 7.27 billion by the year 
2050. Its draft document says couples should have a right "to eliminate 
unwanted pregnancies."
      Last month John Paul told all heads of state in a letter that the 
conference could result in a "serious setback for humanity." He 
dispatched a high-level delegation of Vatican family and population 
experts to New York to try to influence the draft at a preparatory 
meeting. He also strongly criticized the conference.
      "The questions before it are not just ones of mere technical 
organization of society to be delegated to economists, sociologists and 
politicians," he said of the conference. "The family comes even before 
the state."

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