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Irked Pope criticizes
U.N. population plan(6/94)
The following is from Christian Crusade Newspaper, P.O. Box 977,
Tulsa, OK 74102, in its 42nd year of publication. We can
be E-mailed on America On Line as Christcrew, on Compuserve
at 72204,541, and via the Internet as Christcrew@aol.com .
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."
WHAT IS CHRISTIAN CRUSADE NEWSPAPER?
Christian Crusade Newspaper is in its 42nd year, has
a worldwide circulation and is published by Christian
Crusade, P.O. Box 977, Tulsa, OK 74102.
It is mailed to subscribers without charge as a result
of the conviction of its founder not to put a price-tag on the
gospel. For a free subscription, just ask.
Although Dr. Hargis no longer travels, editor-in-chief
Keith Wilkerson accepts speaking invitations. Both can be
E-mailed on America On Line as Christcrew, on GEnie as
K.Wilkerson3, via the Internet as Christcrew@aol.com, and
on Compuserve at 72204,541.