Friday, September 12, 2008

More on Marie Stopes, Etc.

From http://www.lifenews.com/int920.html


 


Britain Will Honor Woman Who Started Abortion Business on New Postage Stamp


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 12
, 2008





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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Royal Mail, the official postal system for the British government that is used by the nation's residents is planning a new postage stamp that will honor the woman who started the nation's biggest abortion business. The stamp honors Marie Stopes, who began the abortion business in the 1920s.


The abortion advocate will appear on a 50 cent stamp that is part of a series honoring the contributions of women to England.


Stopes started the first birth control clinic in England and is seen as the pro-abortion British counterpart to Margaret Sanger, who was the mother of Planned Parenthood.


Marie Stopes, like Sanger, was also controversial for her racist, anti-Semitic, and pro-eugenics views.


She advocated the "perfection of the race" through selective breeding and disapproved of her son's choice for a wife because she wore glasses and sent a letter to Adolf Hitler praising him.


Anthony Ozimic, political secretary for the British pro-life group SPUC, told LifeNews.com the British government is wrong to honor Stopes.


"Praising Marie Stopes as a woman of distinction should be as unacceptable as praising Adolf Hitler as a great leader," he said. "Both promoted compulsory sterilization and thereby the eventual elimination of society's most vulnerable members to achieve what they called racial progress."


Rev Dr Peter Mullen, rector of St Michael's Anglican church in Cornhill, also condemned the move.


Calling her a "Nazi sympathizer," he told the London Daily Mail that, "She campaigned to have the poor, the sick and people of mixed race sterilized."


"The managers of the Royal Mail deserve to be condemned for their honoring Marie Stopes," he said.


Father Ray Blake, pastor of St. Mary Magdalen parish in Brighton, is going further and he plans on returning any mail bearing the stamp to its sender.


"Any items of post arriving here with this stamp on it will be returned to the sender. I hope other bloggers take this up, especially amongst the Jewish community," he said.






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Marie Stopes Only Collects 500 Signatures for Intl Pro-Abortion Campaign


by Samantha Singson
September 12
, 2008


News.com Note: Samantha Singson writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group's Friday Fax publication.





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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- After nearly a year of soliciting signatures as part of a campaign for global “safe abortion,” Marie Stopes International has little to show for it.


Less than 500 people have signed an online petition which calls for “full access to legal, voluntary, safe and affordable abortions as part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care” around the world.

The campaign, which was co-sponsored by the pro-abortion groups Ipas and the UK-based group Abortion Rights, was launched at the International Global Safe Abortion Conference that took place in October 2007 in London, an event that was held in conjunction with the UN and UNICEF sponsored Women Deliver conference.


Both the conference and the campaign seek to bolster international commitment to abortion and call “for women’s access to legal, safe abortion to be recognized as a fundamental human right.”

A detailed look at the list of campaign supporters reveal that nearly 20% of the signatures are from employees of the three sponsoring organizations. Of the 498 signatures on the campaign web site, 77 are from Marie Stopes employees, 16 from Ipas employees and 3 from those who work at Abortion Rights.

The campaign says that it is “intolerable” that restrictive laws, lack of resources and “politically and ideologically-motivated interference” remain obstacles for women to access “contraceptive and abortion technologies to save women’s lives.”

The campaign disparages government programs which focus on Millennium Development Goal 5 to improve maternal health but “neglect the 13 percent of maternal deaths caused by unsafe abortion globally and fail to support the full range of preventive actions required.”

Abortion proponents often link unsafe abortion and maternal mortality to push for legal, so-called “safe” abortion. Critics of the Marie Stopes argument are quick to point out that the 13 percent figure is highly suspect, as few countries even record the sex of an individual at time of death, let alone keep records on cause of death.

Critics also challenge the assertion that legal abortion would result in fewer maternal deaths.


In Poland, after abortion was severely restricted in 1993, the country showed a sharp decline in both the abortion rate and in maternal deaths. Ireland, where abortion remains illegal, reports one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world.

Marie Stopes boasts that last year alone it provided over five million people in 40 countries with sexual health and family planning counseling, “safe abortion” and post-abortive care, as well as training health professionals. Around the world, Marie Stopes has become a major player in the national health care systems of developing nations.


In 2006, Marie Stopes, a registered charity, reported “amounts receivable for the provision of services” totalling almost 56 million pounds sterling, or roughly, $100 million US.

Ipas is also a giant in the abortion industry. Ipas works to “expand the availability and accessibility of medical equipment and supplies that health professionals need to deliver high-quality reproductive health services.” Ipas’ manual vacuum aspiration instruments, suction devices used to perform early abortions and “menstrual extractions,” are used and distributed worldwide.

Maries Stopes plans to present the collected signatures to world leaders at the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2008.







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From http://www.lifenews.com/int917.html


Google India Under Fire for Ads Touting Testing for Sex-Selection Abortions


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 12
, 2008





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Mumbai, India (LifeNews.com) -- In a nation with a high rate of sex-selection abortions and female infanticides, genetic testing and the use of ultrasounds to tell prospective parents the sex of their unborn child is illegal. However, Google India is coming under fire for advertisements for gender identification kits.


Sabu George, a Delhi-based researcher who has been trying to stop the practice, filed a petition with India courts last month complaining that such ads were appearing on the India versions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.


According to an AP report, the India Supreme Court asked the companies on August 13 to respond to the concerns. George noticed the ads disappeared on all of the sites one day later.


None of the companies have officially responded to the query, but George told AP he noticed the ads reappear on Google on Thursday.


George says the company is "breaking the law and making money. Every time you click on that ad, Google is making money."


Computer users typing the words "sex" and "selection" on Google India on Thursday would see an ad for the American-based company Urobiologics LLC, which sells urine test kits for $275 to $400 that can accurately determine the sex of an unborn child about 98 percent of the time.


Today, those ads don't appear, although the company turns up in the normal search engine listings when a search for its name is performed.


Dr. Kuldeep Wirma, the founder and president of the company, told AP that his firm can't legally ship the kits to India and he promised to pull any ads on Google India.


"We can stop it right away. We don't intend to do business in India," he said, while admitting that he targeted India users of Google with his ads.


Roli Agarwal, a spokeswoman for Google India, said it is the companies policy not to include such ads.


"The Google advertising program is managed by a set of policies which we develop based on several factors, including legal requirements and user experience. In India, we do not allow ads for the promotion of prenatal gender determination or preconception sex selection. We take local laws extremely seriously and will review the petition carefully," a statement sent to AP said.


In April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the laws against the testing need better enforcement. http://www.lifenews.com/int717.html


Singh noted that the sex-selection abortion problem is causing an "alarming" change in the nation's male-female ratio, with 927 girls born in 2001 for every 1,000 boys. That's down from a 962-1,000 split in 1981.


"This indicates that growing economic prosperity and education levels have not led to a corresponding mitigation in this acute problem," Singh said.



"No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women," the prime minister said.


 





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