The constant attacks on human life in Latin America by the population control movement leave countless victims. Unborn babies are not the only ones dying in the war against third world people in this hemisphere. A recent example of this are the deaths of a number of both men and women who were sterilized in Peru. In most cases the victims were either bribed or pressured.

For decades the Hispanic countries have been the target and women have been used as guinea pigs for practically every new contraceptive and abortifacient drug and device. For the sake of keeping to the schedule, I will only cite two examples. The birth control pill was developed using Puerto Rican women and dangerous experiments using quinacrine were being carried out on Chilean women for the past few years, until the anti-life feminists themselves denounced them and demanded that they be stopped.

I could give many similar examples of this type of abuse of third world women. However, in this talk I want to concentrate on some of the many strategies the population control movement uses, to spread the culture of death in Latin America and other developing countries as it has successfully done in developed countries.

The most common strategy is the "Safe Motherhood" program. The main organization involved in promoting it is Family Health International, with the collaboration of IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), U.N.'s Fund for Population Activities, the Population Council, anti-life feminist groups such as Isis International in Chile and even UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund).

Through this "Safe Motherhood Program", massive promotion of abortifacient contraceptives is carried out in Hispanic countries where abortion is illegal for the most part, by claiming that the objective is to avoid recourse to so called risky illegal abortions. And of course, the implication is that legal abortion is what they call "safe abortion". I will go into this strategy later on in my talk.

The argument is that by increasing the use of these so called contraceptives, the number of illegal abortions will be curbed. Not even the population controllers themselves believe this falsehood! Dr. Malcom Potts, former president of Planned Parenthood (IPPF's U.S. affiliate) stated back in l973 that as the use of contraceptives becomes more common, there is an increase in the number of abortions. Dr. Alan Guttmacher, also a former president of Planned Parenthood said in l973 that sterilization and abortion are logical components of "modern birth control services". The U.S. Supreme Court stated in l992 that where it concerns certain critical aspects, the decision to abort is in the same category as the decision to use birth control because of the failure of contraceptives.

Finally, in the U.S. where the use of contraception (even for minors) is probably more common than anywhere else in the world, the number of women who abort has continued to climb every year. According to present statistics, most of those women were using contraceptives when they got pregnant.

In reality, the argument that the use of contraceptives cuts down on the number of abortions is moot because most so-called contraceptives like the pill, the IUD, Norplant and Depo-Provera abort, at least part of the time. In fact, this is proven by the promotion of two of these abortifacients: the pill and the IUD for what is cleverly and euphemistically called "emergency contraception". In short, a woman who has what the anti-life movement calls "unprotected sex", takes a higher dosage of the pill or has an IUD inserted supposedly in order to prevent a pregnancy.

The advantage of this deceit where it concerns the population controllers is, that the poor woman is not even aware that she has done away with her baby in the first stages of his or her development. She simply believes that she is just using contraception. Another advantage for the anti-life movement is that since pregnancy cannot be proved, the fact that an illegal abortion has taken place cannot be proved either. It is the perfect anti-life strategy in countries where abortion is illegal. The fact that the U.S. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists redefined pregnancy as beginning at implantation and not conception, has helped bring about this deceit.

In its Internet site MEXFAM (IPPF's Mexico affiliate), proclaims that "emergency contraception" is a new method of birth control that is available to women. The exact dosage of the pill that the woman must take in order to abort her newly conceived baby, is also made available.

A similar anti-life strategy is what is also euphemistically called "menstrual regulation", "gynecological aspiration" or "monthly extraction". All of these terms masquerade the fact that an early suction abortion is done before pregnancy has been confirmed. A description of this procedure and how it can be used to circumvent national anti-abortion legislation is included in IPPF's Family Planning Manual for Doctors.

In fact, IPPF has provided thousands of suction devices to developing countries where abortion is illegal, under the pretext of "gathering samples of tissues" or extracting the remaining tissues after illegal abortions have been done.

Another strategy to induce abortion with impunity according to Latin American doctors I have spoken with, is to puncture the fetal sac in order to start the process of abortion. Then the woman is left either on her own or is told to go to the hospital so the procedure can be completed.

The other most common strategy for the promotion of abortifacient contraception and the eventual legalization of abortion in countries where it is illegal, consists of inflating the numbers of maternal deaths from illegal abortion. This strategy worked very well in the U.S. and other countries where abortion is now legal.

Let us pray and act so that third world countries won't follow the example of the "developed" countries like the U.S., and legalize the killing of its unborn citizens.