To most of us in the U.S., the term "American dream" has always meant the opportunity to better one's life. Unfortunately, for many this term now means the right to do whatever it takes to gratify oneself --often to the detriment of others-- and without regard for their rights or their welfare.

World wide anti-life/family population controllers have deviously and methodically devised well-planned programs, in order to entice the people in developing nations into accepting their warped version of the "American dream". In reality, this "dream" has turned out to be a real nightmare for Third World people and their children.

These anti-life attacks are being funded by the US government and the wealthiest of institutions: the U.N., IPPF, the World Bank, UNICEF and other huge organizations bent on controlling the world's population. They promote their agendas by making their wares look appealing --as being "necessary" for the Third World to attain the development which will supposedly enable it to fulfill its own version of the "American dream".

The pro-abortion forces have to be especially conniving to sell abortion as part of this package in mostly Catholic Latin American nations, where there is much more cultural and religious reticence to accepting it.

Notwithstanding this reticence, recently First Lady Hillary Clinton boldly proclaimed during her visit to Argentina (a country where abortion is for the most part illegal), that "access to quality health care, especially family planning and reproductive health services"[ is] crucial[ to] advancing the progress of women".It seems Hillary believes (according to her own press secretary Marsha Berry), that abortion (deceitfully called "reproductive health services ") is indispensable for Latin American women to fulfill their own "American dream".l Both her husband Bill and the Vice-president agree.

The push to legalize abortion is ever threatening in the Hispanic countries. Just this year alone there were efforts in El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay; all of which were defeated. Vida Humana Internacional, HLI's Hispanic Outreach and its affiliates, were involved in no small measure in these pro-life triumphs. However, pro-abortionists are laying the groundwork for future success by aborting women with impunity in countries where abortion is illegal, while using euphemisms like "reproductive health services", "menstrual extraction" or "induction" and "emergency contraception".

But these strategies are not really new. For at least the past 20 years, the anti-life movement has been plotting the eventual legalization of abortion in Latin America. One example is an international conference which took place in Airlie House, Virginia (March 28-30, l976), which was sponsored by the Pathfinder Fund and the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh. At this meeting, "140 doctors, lawyers and other family planning professionals from l9 countries in the Western Hemisphere" (mostly Latin America), discussed and were briefed on "menstrual induction" and "minilaparatomy" as "new low-technology methods of fertility regulation"2.

Infamous pro-abortionist Dr. Malcolm Potts declared during said conference, that "The menstrual regulation syringe itself has no more moral or legal status than a Band-Aid or stethoscope". He predicted "that most physicians will come to use menstrual induction just as they have come to accept the pill and the IUD".2

An "agreement" appears to have been made at that meeting to use the term "menstrual regulation", instead of early abortion (which it is), because it "is more palatable to all countries of the world", especially where abortion is illegal.3 And since it is performed during the first l4 days of "a missed menstrual period when (supposedly) pregnancy cannot be reliably diagnosed", participants were told that "this new technology may be allowed to operate without criminal sanction".4

According to several Latin American doctors that I have spoken to, this strategy has worked very well in Latin America, so it's no wonder that the anti-life movement has gone on to the next step: promotion of "emergency contraception". This is the use of high doses of the pill and the insertion of the IUD, in order to prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum or new developing human being. IPPF's Mexico affiliate, MEXFAM in its Internet page, gives the exact dosage of the pill that women have to use in order to abort, while violating anti-abortion laws with impunity.

Other Latin American countries have been targeted too, according to reports we have received from our contacts. In Colombia for example, PROFAMILIA (the IPPF affiliate), advertised in a newspaper the availability of "emergency contraception"; and in Argentina, a government plan for massive distribution of contraceptives under the guise of securing "reproductive health", includes "emergency contraceptives". Even Avon Products has become involved in "educating" its clients in several countries (for example The Philippines, Malaysia, Brazil and Venezuela), about "reproductive health".5

"Reproductive health", "menstrual extraction" and "emergency contraception", are not the only strategies the anti-life movement is using in order to abort women and also pave the way for abortion legalization. These enemies of life and family are using hedonistic sex "education" as the gateway to all these other evils.

U.S. based organizations such as SEICUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.) and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its affiliates, are fostering the development of sex "education" programs in Latin America by providing financial resources, materials and training. In Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and many other Latin American countries, scandalous sex "education" programs which parallel those of the U.S. and even surpass them, are unabashedly teaching children that sexual aberrations such as homosexual activity and even bestiality are viable, normal options of sexual expression. In fact, masturbation and bestiality are being proposed as "safe sex" alternatives.

Too terrible to be true? Let me give you just a few examples.

"Reciprocidad", a sex-ed training manual for Colombian teachers claims that "no sexual relation is in itself wrong". Another teacher's manual, "Conciencia Crítica", describes under "different sexual conducts" a number of sexual aberrations such as sadomasochism and sex with animals, which it claims are for the most part "not harmful". Colombia's National Sex Education Plan states that sex-ed "should vindicate pleasure and enjoyment as an inalienable right of every human being".

When I visited Colombia recently to inaugurate our affiliate Fundación Cultura de la Vida Humana and to participate in an international congress, I was told incredible horror stories about how this mandatory sex "education" program is being "taught" to very young children. I was also informed that PROFAMILIA (IPPF's "showcase" affiliate in Colombia), has been training teachers, and that some of these "experts" have traveled to other Latin American countries to help set up similar programs. Thank God our affiliates in Colombia are working hard to get this horrible program removed and provide a moral alternative!

In Brazil, Pathfinder Fund, the Ford Foundation and others sponsored sex "education" manuals for the Health Dept. which were prepared by radical feminists. They justify and defend sexual perversions and include pornographic drawings. A book titled "Saude Sexual e Reproductiva- Ensinando a Ensinar" (Sexual and Reproductive Health- How to Teach It) is in use in Brazil, in which abortion is promoted and the Catholic Church is criticized for its "punitive attitude" which "could foster in the adolescent guilt feelings and difficulties in future relationships, seriously affecting his emotional development and even his sexuality." In said book incest and virginity are called "taboos" which "come and go" in different cultures.6

The Paulist Press ("Paulinos") in Brazil published a sex-ed manual titled "Educacao Sexual nas Escolas" ("Sex Education in the Schools") which is being distributed by the Daughters of St. Paul in that country, which defends contraception, homosexuality, etc. SIECUS's "Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Kindergarten-l2th Grade" was adapted for Brazil, with funding from the McArthur Foundation (which also gives money to Catholics for a Free Choice).6 SIECUS is very involved in other Latin American countries too.

Since many of these evils that are besieging Latin America are coming from its neighbors to the North (and also the funding to promote them), those of us who live in the U.S. and Canada have in my opinion, a duty to help fight and deter them. Whatever efforts we make will be fruitful, because Latin American bishops are very well informed and interested. Almost all of them uphold and teach Humanae Vitae. After receiving abundant materials from Vida Humana Internacional, the bishop of Tacna-Moquegua, Peru, Mons. Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins, warned Catholic women that if they know they are using an abortifacient contraceptive which kills human lives and they continue to use it, they are in danger of ex-communication.7

There is still time to save Latin America --the future of the Catholic Church in this hemisphere-- from the warped "American dream".