Monthly Archives: September 1994

THE EVOLUTION OF POPULATION CONTROL –PART II Bucharest: The Third United Nations Population Conference (1974)

This is the second installment of Winifride Prestwich’s historical account of world population control The Bucharest Conference on population in 1974 marked a turning point in an international effort by a group of Western nations to impose a long-term plan to control the size of the world population, under the banner of the United Nations.  This Conference differed from the two earlier [...]

2010-02-16T13:20:36-05:00September 16, 1994|Population|

You Were Asking

After years of contraception and abortion, Quebec is said to be trying to raise its birth rate. Are any UN countries having second thoughts about their policies of population control?  B.S. Toronto. Singapore is an interesting example, and Japan, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia also come to mind. In 1974, at the Bucharest Conference, the Singapore Minister of Health and Home Affairs said [...]

2010-02-16T13:20:04-05:00September 16, 1994|Abortion|

LATEST TREND A SURPRISE

I am typing this article at a parish in Kimberly, BC, where I have been sitting in for the pastor.  During my spare time I have been reading reams about the Cairo conference and it is certainly most discouraging.  But then, unexpectedly, good news arrived in the form of Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family newsletter. In it, Dobson severely criticizes [...]

2010-02-16T13:19:39-05:00September 16, 1994|Issues|

JUST THE FACTS PLEASE

Any pro-lifer who has had to represent the movement in public knows only too well how frustrating it can be.  Often a perfectly sound statement has been edited and placed out of context to appear harsh or even ridiculous. There is also a double standard to handle.  Pro-life writers or spokespeople are well aware that anything written or said will be scrutinized [...]

2010-02-16T13:19:06-05:00September 16, 1994|Issues|

B.C. activist targeted by clinic

It appears pro-life activist Gordon Watson has become a thorn in the side of Everywoman’s Health Centre, East Vancouver’s abortion clinic.  At the same time, B.C. Attorney General Colin Gabelmann has sunk so deep in the mud, he seems unable to extricate himself from the sticky situation which has tainted his entire ministry. In April, Gabelmann had submitted a false affidavit which [...]

2010-02-16T13:18:52-05:00September 16, 1994|Issues|
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