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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:47:00 CST
From:         "dr. Daniel Edward Taylor" <AUTENRKL@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
Subject:      pro-life/pop. control -- US politic -- Clinton

    here's some great news from another net list i just got
    today...NOT (imho)

> From:	IN%"tgray%IGC.APC.ORG@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu"  "Tom Gray" 11-NOV-1992
 12:24:48.55
> To:	Multiple recipients of list BIOSPH-L
 <BIOSPH-L%UBVM.BITNET@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
> CC:
> Subj:	IPS: Population & US Election
>
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> Title: UNITED STATES: Population advocates look forward to Clinton
>
>
> washington, oct 22 (ips/jim lobe) -- if elected, democratic
> presidential candidate bill clinton will move quickly to end the
> six-year-old u.s. financial boycott of the u.n. population fund
> (unfpa) and the international planned parenthood federation
> (ippf), according to family planning advocates here.
>
> representative jim moody, a family planning advocate in the
> u.s. congress, predicted here thursday that clinton will
> ''immediately reverse'' republican policies on international
> family planning services which took effect in 1985.
>
> last april, clinton told an 'earth day' audience in
> philadelphia he considered the refusal by the republican
> administrations of presidents ronald reagan and george bush to
> contribute to the two agencies ''shameful''.
>
> ''a clinton administration will restore u.s. funding for the
> u.n.'s population-stabilisation efforts and allow u.s. foreign aid
> to support planned parenthood,'' he said then.
>
> in 1985, reagan ended 15 years of u.s. financial support for
> the u.n. agency. he objected to unfpa's support for a family
> planning programme in china which he accused of using coercive
> abortions.
>
> that same year, the administration's 'mexico city' policy,
> enunciated first at the 1984 population conference in the mexican
> capital, also took effect.
>
> it provided that washington should cease funding private
> overseas organisations that offer abortion-related services. ippf,
> the world's largest non-governmental provider of family planning
> services, was also effectively cut off.
>
> both actions were taken largely at the behest of the u.s. anti-
> abortion lobby which constituted a politically powerful element in
> the republican coalition that brought reagan to the presidency in
> 1980.
>
> family planning advocates had hoped that bush would take a less
> dogmatic position more consistent with his early career in
> congress and at the united nations during the late 1960s and early
> 1970s when he was a strong supporter of population-stabilisation
> programmes in the third world.
>
> but, apparently worried about maintaining the loyalty of the
> republican right, bush vetoed a foreign aid bill in nov. 1989
> because it included a 15-million-dollar appropriation for unfpa,
> even though the legislation specified that none of the funds
> earmarked for the u.n. agency could be used in china. (more/ips)
>
> united states: population advocates look forward to clinton(2-e)
>
> united states: population (2)
>
> congress approved similar legislation each year since then,
> only to have it vetoed by bush.
>
> earlier this month, congress increased its contribution to
> bilateral family planning programmes from 250 to 350 million
> dollars for 1993 but deleted its contribution to unfpa and a
> provision repealing the mexico city policy in anticipation of yet
> another veto.
>
> but representative chet atkins, another prominent family
> planning supporter in congress, told a population institute
> luncheon here thursday that there will be a ''major change in
> national policy'', if, as expected, clinton defeats bush nov. 3.
>
> such a change, according to sharon camp, vice-president of the
> washington-based population crisis committee (pcc) is ''long
> overdue.  the mexico city policy has had a very real and negative
> impact on women's health around the world''.
>
> ''furthermore, by not contributing to either ippf or unfpa, the
> u.s., under reagan and bush, has hurt the ability of these
> organisations to expand family planning services to those who want
> and need them''.
>
> werner fornos, head of the population institute, said friday he
> sensed a ''sea-change'' in u.s. attitudes towards support for
> international family planning since the battle was joined between
> reagan and population advocates.
>
> the confrontation resulted in many population-advocacy groups
> reaching out to grassroots organisations, such as environmental
> and church groups, to form broader coalitions, such as those
> involved in next week's world population awareness week declared
> by the u.s. congress and 35 of 50 u.s. state governors.
>
> ''the population movement has really come of age'' as a result
> of the battles it has had to fight against republican policy,
> moody told representatives of many of the groups involved in next
> week thursday's nationwide activities
>
> atkins said that policy had forced the movement to ''think
> defensively'' for 12 years.  if clinton is elected and sticks to
> his pledge to reverse policy, the population movement will for the
> first time in many years have an opportunity to consider what is
> the next step.'' (end/ips/jl/yjc/92)
>
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