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PAUL MARTIN PARTICIPATES IN UN LIE

In 1997 U.S. businessman, Ted Turner, former husband of Hollywood actor, Jane Fonda, former Vice Chairman of Time Warner Inc. and founder of CNN, gave an historic gift of $1 billion to the UN. The donation was supposed to be used to meet pressing global health, humanitarian and environmental needs. In fact, Mr. Turner is an ardent supporter of population control by way of abortion and birth control for third world countries, and his donation has been directed mainly towards population control.

To ensure that his donated monies be used for this purpose, Mr. Turner had created the UN Foundation to administer the funds. Its ten-member board consists of long-time abortion and population control activists, such as Dr. Nafis Sadik, former executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Timothy Wirth, a representative of U.S. Planned Parenthood, who served as the head of the American delegation on behalf of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1994 at the UN Conference on Population Development in Cairo. All board members of the Foundation are well known for their relentless pursuit of abortion and birth control to reduce population growth in the third world.

On October 14, 2004, Mr. Turner's Foundation placed a full-page advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, a newspaper owned by the left-leaning New York Times.

The ad was published in conjunction with an official statement issued the day before by the UN, in which it committed itself "to an action plan to ensure universal access to reproductive health information and services, uphold fundamental human rights, including sexual and reproductive rights, alleviate poverty, secure gender equality, and protect the environment."

The advertisement itself stated that at the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, the world's governments had committed themselves to ensure universal access to "reproductive health, information and services." The expression "reproductive health" is the UN code word for abortion on demand and access to birth control available for everyone, especially for adolescents, without parental knowledge or consent. The ad further stated that "the largest generation of adolescents in history - more than one billion people - are now entering adulthood in a rapidly changing world." What the ad did not say, however, was that only a fraction of these adolescents live in North America and Europe where population is declining at an alarming rate, and that the huge bulk of them live in third world countries. Certainly, the ad implies that <u>something</u> must be done to inhibit the fertility of adolescents in the third world countries.

The ad included names of 52 global leaders who affirmed the alleged ICPD statement, and who called upon the international community to fund the ICPD's Plan of Action.

What is disturbing about this ad and the UN's public commitment to "sexual and reproductive rights," is that it is based on a deliberate lie, promulgated by both the western countries and the UN. Canada's Prime Minister, Paul Martin, as one of the signatories to this advertisement and the UN statement, should be held responsible for its falsehood. Other Canadians signing the ad, by the way, were Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court of Canada judge and now High Commissioner for the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and UN gadfly, Stephen Lewis.

UN officials had no authority to make an official statement on sexual and reproductive rights, and the ad in the International Herald Tribune deliberately provides false information since the world governments did not commit themselves, in 1994 at the ICPD, to "reproductive health."

This was the intention of the organizers of that Conference, but it didn't happen. REAL Women attended this Conference and, therefore, we have first hand knowledge of the real story behind the ICPD.

Every effort was made to insure that the Conference agreed to the imposition of abortion and birth control worldwide. In March of that year, U.S. President Bill Clinton cabled all U.S. embassies around the world requesting that they approach local governments to encourage support for the Conference, which was to make abortion an international human right.

The President of the Conference was Dr. Fred Sai, a former President of International Planned Parenthood (IPPF); the Secretary-General of the Conference, Dr. Nafis Sadik, was President of the pro-abortion UN Population Fund (UNFPA); another former President of IPPF and the head of the U.S. delegation was Timothy Wirth, then a Board member of Planned Parenthood of America (PPA). In addition to this, 225 members of IPPF were on 91 different government delegations (including the Canadian delegation's Bonnie Johnson, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada). Moreover, 57 of the UN support staff sent from New York were open supporters of IPPF and the feminist women's caucus.

In spite of all this pressure, the document resulting from the Cairo Conference did not succeed in endorsing the controversial issues, because of the pro-family NGOs present at the Conference, which resulted in a lack of consensus at the Conference. In fact, 24 countries placed reservations against all the controversial provisions, and four Islamic countries boycotted the Conference altogether because of its controversial objectives.

Importantly, any provisions relating to sexual and reproductive rights were made subject to the provision that they were to be carried out only in accordance with each nation's laws, religious and ethical values. That is, there was no obligation on any nation to honour these controversial provisions if they contravened its laws and cultural and religious values.

Moreover, the phrase so hated by population controllers, inserted in a previous UN population document at Mexico City in 1984, that "abortion should not be used as a method of family planning" was not deleted from the document. The organizers of the Conference were not pleased.

The crucial definition and containment of reproductive health (abortion) and birth control, agreed to at the conference, has consistently been ignored by the UN and the western countries. For example, at the follow-up to the Cairo Conference (Cairo + 5), held in New York in March 1999, at which REAL Women was also present, the restrictions or caveat (called a "chapeau" in UN language) were never referred to and not even footnoted. As far as the wheelers and dealers of the western powers and the UN officials were concerned, this chapeau didn't exist. Yet this chapeau or caveat in the ICPD document was the only reason why the provision for "reproductive health" (abortion) was agreed to at Cairo. The third world countries honestly believed at that time that this reservation would be respected and honoured by the other nations. Little did they realize the duplicity of the west and UN officials.

The UN statement and Mr. Turner's advertisement in the International Herald Tribune were just another attempt to misrepresent what actually occurred at the ICPD, and to impose abortion and birth control worldwide. Mr. Martin should be ashamed of himself for participating in this attempt to fraudulently impose this on unwilling nations.

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