In a country of only 6 million people, over a million and a half people have been affected including 1159 lives lost. Some 70,000 are without drinking water. These latest actions have been decried as demographic imperialism by Julia de Cardenal, president of a family advocacy group, Si a la Vida, and leader of an effort to aid the earthquake victims. Salvadorians love and respect life. Responding to the pressure of the developed world to accept abortion and the contraceptive mentality, El Salvador amended its constitution in 1999 to officially recognize that life begins at the moment of conception.
Abortion is forbidden.
However, they do contain, as one El Salvadorian doctor described, a rainbow of abortifacient contraceptives including the morning after pill. The United States should not be funding an organization that uses an earthquake as an opportunity to push abortifacient contraceptives and sterilization to people still standing in the rubble of an earthquake that has devastated their lives. Steve Mosher is President of the Population Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to debunking the myths of overpopulation. Nothing written here is to be construed as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before Congress. Steve Mosher will speak on population control and its abuses.