THE STOPP REPORT

China Forcibly Aborts Woman Just Days from Delivery

On May 5, 1999, Australian Senator Brian Harradine revealed that a "heavily pregnant woman," who was refused refugee status by Australia, was deported to China where her baby was forcibly aborted 10 days before it was due to be born. Reuters News Service reported that the unidentified woman, who already had a daughter, had asked Australian authorities not to deport her, fearing her unborn baby would be aborted under China's one-child policy.

"She is absolutely devastated. I am told you cannot recognize her as the same person. Her life has been devastated," Harradine said. He also said the woman asked to be allowed to give birth in Australia, but was told by immigration officials that Chinese officials had promised not to abort her baby. Harradine said he had documents from the Behai City People's Hospital detailing the woman's abortion, a receipt for the operation and a videotaped interview with the woman in China.

Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock is looking into the case, but said it was not Australian policy to deport women so close to birth. Ruddock said China's one-child policy, a family planning policy that limits urban couples to one child, did not automatically mean forced abortions. "As I understand it, that is not the application of the policy in China," he said. Reuters reported that China has defended its birth control policy as helping contain the rapid growth of its 1.2 billion population.

When STOPP mentioned this story to a number of individuals, the reaction was one of resignation. Yes, we know this takes place in China, but let us not be callous enough to accept it. You will note that the reason given by China to defend such a policy is the "overpopulation" problem. Starting on page 4 of this edition of The Ryan Report, we will give you the latest information that will show that, contrary to popular opinion, the population problem the world is facing is one of underpopulation! But first, let's look at a couple of other population-related stories.

Florida Involved in Population Control through Child Spacing

The St. Petersburg Times reported on May 3, 1999, that the Florida Department of Health is sponsoring a $500,000 marketing campaign. The campaign is targeting low-income women and is giving the message to new mothers that "Two years apart is baby smart." It is also aimed at informing them about extended Medicaid-funded family planning services.

Last year, the St. Petersburg Times reports, Florida extended new mothers' Medicaid eligibility for an additional two years for contraceptives, physical exams, counseling, limited STD treatment and testing, and transportation. Previously, Medicaid recipients received such services for only two months after giving birth.

Cheryl Robbins, family planning director for the Florida Department of Health, said the state is promoting family planning to, among other things, prevent abortions. STOPP supporters know how ridiculous this claim is as most of the products distributed under the program cause the death of babies in the womb. Ads for the "two years apart" program are airing on television and radio stations and being posted on billboards and brochures. These ads are targeting low-income women who, in Florida, are mostly minorities. They are thinly veiled attempts to control minority population.

PP Shipping Birth Control To Kosovo

Planned Parenthood announced in April that it was responding to the problems in Kosovo by sending $100,000 to buy birth control devices for the refugee women. The birth control devices included all the normal abortifacient devices including the so-called "emergency contraception."

PP claims the emergency contraception devices are needed to treat women who are the victims of rape. When the Population Research Institute (PRI) investigated, they were told by one doctor in the refugee camps, "none of the raped women we see in the camps come in within 72 hours of the fact." This delay not only makes the abortifacient "morning after pill" useless for rape victims, it puts already pregnant women at great risk of medical complications.

Half of the PP contribution went to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). PRI reports that the UNFPA, aided by the local affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Albanian Family Planning Association, appears to be engaged in a covert population control campaign against the Kosovars. Dr. Enza Ferrara, who works at a refugee camp in Shkodra, confirmed that the UNFPA's agenda is to prevent the increase of the Kosovars. Dr. Ferrara recalled a visit from a UNFPA official at the beginning of the refugee crisis. When Dr. Ferrara asked why the UNFPA was so interested in promoting abortifacients among Kosovar women, the official responded: "There are too many refugees." "What about husbands and wives?" Dr. Ferrara pressed. "Don't you see!" the official responded. "They are refugees. They can't have children!"

Packard Foundation

On May 2, 1999, the Washington Times ran an article about the Packard Foundation and how it is a "major international family planning funder." It showed how David Packard, "computer tycoon and former deputy defense secretary in the Nixon administration," posthumously funds numerous family planning and abortion rights initiatives.

This funding is done through the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. The foundation reportedly has assets of $9.6 billion, and is, according to the Times, "considered one of the world's greatest sources of family planning funding."

The Times further noted that "on the abortion front, the Packard foundation often funds projects that others will not touch." Last year, the foundation awarded $153,000 to the Bridging the Gap Foundation to publish "A Pocket Guide to Contraception," which details emergency contraception, sterilization and abortion methods for medical students, as well as $300,000 to a group lobbying for legalized abortion in Brazil.

Cole Wilbur, Packard Foundation president, told the Times that curbing population growth was one of Packard's "major goals," citing a speech Packard gave in 1992 that emphasized the relationship between population pressures and environmental destruction.

The Times noted that the Packard Foundation made many grants last year including:

• $150,000 to a Mexican-based group to "strengthen the voice of pro-choice Catholics."
• $500,000 to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS-a PP spin-off group) for a media campaign aimed at informing policymakers about sexuality education and sexual health.
• $200,000 in general funds for the National Abortion Federation (the abortion lobbying group that includes PP abortionists).
• $152,500 to the Milwaukee-based Religious Consultation on Population "for a project to counter religious obstacles to family planning and abortion in 10 world religions."
• Over $1.9 million to international family planning and environmental groups (including Planned Parenthood) for various population growth projects.

Population Control in Pakistan

The Financial Times reported on May 2, 1999, that Pakistan has launched the "most direct effort" yet to control its booming population. Pakistani health officials launched a prime-time television and poster campaign "as an essential cornerstone in a national policy" to curb the country's population, which ranks among the world's highest at 131 million with a 2.6% growth rate.

One TV ad features a mother with her 10-month-old child saying, "Whenever I want to have a second child, I would just discontinue use of the pill." A second spot shows a female doctor telling a patient of her own experiences with birth control, and a third "shows a grandmother discussing her daughter-in-law's use of contraceptives with another grandmother who is being driven frantic by caring for three or four grandchildren."

Shahnoor Ahmed, director of the advertising agency that produces the ads, said, "The message has never been shown this directly before. While some may not approve, the government's estimates show that 75% of the population is aware that family planning is good for you but only 10% use it in practice." The program is running into opposition from the Muslim community. According to the Times, "religious leaders contend such ads 'promote immorality,' while others say they could be construed as an 'international conspiracy to reduce the rise in Muslim numbers worldwide.'"

This is another example of population controllers attacking religious groups and minorities in their tireless efforts to impose their views on society. All of this effort by population controllers is not new. It has been going on for years. We bring you these reports to let you know that these efforts are still going on in great numbers all over the world. This is particularly note- worthy in light of the story beginning on the next page.

PP and Adoptions

In an effort that may be linked to a pro-life effort in the state to get a "Choose Life" license plate that will provide money to organizations promoting adoption, the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, will add adoption to its list of services, which include surgical abortion.

The Richmond Times/Dispatch reported on April 30, 1999, that David Nova, regional Planned Parenthood president, said "he checked with the more than 900 Planned Parenthood clinics and 130 affiliates in the United States and found that none provided both services to patients on-site."

The Roanoke abortion facility will offer adoption services in conjunction with the Children's Home Society of Virginia, and the service will eventually be expanded to clinics in Blacksburg, Charlottesville and Lynchburg.

STOPP encourages all our supporters in Virginia to contact the Children's Home Society and let them know you cannot support their efforts as long as they maintain a liaison with PP.

Feldt Watch

In April, Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) gave a talk at the 25th anniversary celebration of Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, Nebraska, in which she outlined PPFA plans for the coming year.

"We need to think and plan beyond what our adversaries are doing to us," Feldt said, "We need to force them to worry about what we are doing to them." She indicated that the Planned Parenthood Action Fund will spend at least $2.4 million on getting politicians who support PP elected in 2000. She also said PP hoped to mobilize one million Planned Parenthood activists to a rally in March, 2000.

The purpose of the rally is to convince lawmakers that PP sets the agenda and is the one to be reckoned with, rather than pro-life forces.

Feldt's appearance at the celebration luncheon drew a number of protestors coordinated by Nebraska Right to Life. The protest included a press conference, and a number of demonstrators carried large pictures of aborted children.

"If there was ever an audience that was appropriate for those photos, it's the people who support Planned Parenthood with their time, money and presence at this luncheon," said Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life. "We ask Planned Parenthood activists to look at these posters and to face the stark reality of what they advocate."

Biggest Challenge of the 21st Century

We've been warning about it for years. American Life League's Bob Sassone produced a Handbook on Population that talked about the dire consequences of the actions of the population controllers around the world. Our friend, Steve Mosher at the Population Research Institute, has been aggressively fighting funding of these groups.

Yet, nobody listened.

Now the effects of half a century of population control activities are becoming apparent, and the news is not good.

The effects have been documented, not by a pro-life group whose bias can be questioned by the media, but by a man who is generally recognized as the foremost thinker on management techniques. His name is Peter F. Drucker, and he has been recognized as a management expert for the last 50 years.

Drucker recently released Management Challenges for the 21st Century, his 31st book. This seems like an unlikely book for pro-lifers to be able to use to support their fight, but it is just because of this fact that the book is so valuable.

In the book, Drucker is telling the management of corporations what issues they must deal with as we move into the next century. Drucker states in the introduction: "This is not a book of predictions, not a book about the future. The challenges and issues discussed in it are already with us in every one of the developed countries and in most of the emerging ones. They can already be identified, discussed, analyzed and prescribed for. Some people, someplace are already working on them. But so far, very few organizations do, and very few executives. Those who do work on these challenges today, and thus prepare themselves and their institutions for the new challenges, will be the leaders and dominate tomorrow. Those who wait until these challenges have indeed become 'hot' issues are likely to fall behind, perhaps never to recover." We are not going to discuss all of the challenges that Drucker identifies. You may get a copy of his book to do that. But we will tell you the number one challenge he identified. In fact, let's give you that challenge in Drucker's own words:

"The most important single new certainty-if only because there is no precedent for it in all of history-is the collapsing birthrate in the developed world."

Drucker identifies as the single most important business factor of the next century exactly what Bob Sassone, Steve Mosher, Judie Brown, Jim Sedlak and others have been warning about for the last 20 years. We've always asked the question "If we kill all our children, where will the consumers of the future come from?" Now the corporate world is beginning to wake up, and they do not like the answer.

Drucker outlines the problems in seven pages at the beginning of his book, and then carries the thread throughout the work. He describes how Japan and all of Southern Europe are "drifting toward collective national suicide by the end of the 21st century." He cites statistics to back-up his contention and then observes that the United States is not far behind the other dying nations. He gives us another twenty to twenty-five years and then points out that our population will begin to seriously decline.

Now Drucker is observing a fact. He does not try to explain what brought about the birthrate collapse nor what we can do to have more children. He is simply relating the realities of the world that business managers must deal with. But we want to do what Drucker has not done. We want to talk a bit about how we got where we are and what we need to do to change things. And we do need to change. As I heard once at a management meeting: "If you always do the things you've done, then you'll always be where you've been."

Before we get into that discussion, I want to assure you that Peter Drucker is not alone in his observations. Many people are beginning to recognize the problems we are in because of the lack of children being born.

USA Today

USA Today ran an item on April 12, 1999, which reported that "Lower Birthrate Drains Labor Pool." This article states that "from 1996 to 2006, the percentage of workers 25-34 will shrink nine percent, and those 35-44 will slip three percent." This is not the first time this paper has noted the problems caused by a lack of people in the workforce; it is just the most recent.

Entrepreneurs

A year ago, the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, was on television commercials on the East Coast of the United States asking skilled workers to move to his area. He even set up a phone line in his office for people to call because there were not enough workers in the area to fill the job openings.

An amusement park operator near Richmond, Virginia, hires close to a thousand young people every summer to help run the park. This year he told some area politicians that he had to go to Europe to hire about 25% of his work force because there were not enough applicants locally.

Internet

For those of you on the Internet, Toni Horst, Ph.D., wrote an article on April 19, 1999 (www.dismal.com/thoughts/pop_growth.stm). This article points out that "women are having fewer children" and that "in 61 countries, fertility (birth) rates are at or below replacement level." The article then goes on to cite some of the economic impacts of this low birthrate. It points out, for example, that "at present, working taxpayers outnumber retirees in the developed world by 3 to 1," adding that "this ratio drops to 1.5 to 1 by 2030. In some countries like Italy, it drops to 1 to 1 and even below."

Drucker made these same observations and predicts that the age of retirement will most likely rise from today's 60-65 to 79 during the next century.

United Nations

Another source of specific information on the world population shortage is the United Nations. In October 1998, the UN issued its 1998 Revision of World Population Estimates and Projections. In that report, the UN stated that 61 countries now have a below-replacement birth rate. This is an increase of 20 percent in just two years.

To illustrate the impact of this declining birthrate, the UN documented that the median age of the world population (i.e. half the people are above the median age and half the people are below it) in 1950 was 23.5 years. The median age has increased modestly to 26.1 years in 1998. However, the UN currently predicts that, by the year 2050, the median age will be 37.8 years worldwide, and 47.4 years in Europe!

Can you imagine the collapse of all the social systems as we know them today as our young people are steadily killed and our elderly find that, in order to solve the problems caused by the aging population, they are more and more pressured to end their lives?

U.S. News & World Report

On March 1, 1999, the U.S. News & World Report did a major story that was titled: "How Global Aging Will Challenge the World's Economic Well Being."

This article is rife with statistics that illustrate the major population problems that the world faces. Some of the statistics presented in the article are:

• In the year 2000, for the first time, people over 60 will outnumber kids 14 or younger in industrial countries.
• By the year 2050, people over 60 will comprise 32.5% of the population in industrialized countries while kids 14 and under will makeup only 15.3%.
• By 2050, even in developing countries, people over 60 will outnumber kids 20.6% to 20.3%.
• Asia is aging rapidly. Japan, for example, will suffer a 25 percent decline over the next decade in the number of workers under 30.
• Paying for the health care costs of the elderly, according to official projections, would require increasing the total tax burden on workers by an equivalent of 25 to 40 percent. The alternative is to cut benefits.
• As the trends become more visible, middle-age people will save a higher percentage of their income and this will have a negative impact on consumer demand for non-essential goods.
• Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria have birth rates of 1.2 children per family or less. (It takes 2.1 children per family to replace the population.)

Conclusion

Peter F. Drucker concluded the section of his book dealing with the collapsing birthrate with the following statement:

The birthrate collapse has tremendous political and social implications that we cannot even guess at today. But it surely will also have tremendous economic and business implications . . . Above all, any strategy . . . has to start out with demographics and, above all, with the collapsing birthrate in the developed world. Of all developments, it is the most spectacular, the most unexpected and one that has no precedent whatsoever.

While we concur that the collapsing birthrates are spectacular and without precedent, it should not be a surprise. We've been warning for years that this would happen. It seems no one was listening.

The Abortion Connection

It may seem obvious that the declining birthrate and all the subsequent economic problems are directly attributable to abortion. But none of the articles cited herein even mentioned abortion.

It seems that the same people who refused to listen to us for 20 years and are now surprised by the results, still do not understand.

How can you kill 1.5 million babies through surgical abortion in the United States every year and believe that you will not eventually have the problem of too few young people?

When you add to that the fact that approximately 50 million babies are killed in the world every year by surgical abortion, it becomes clear that the problems discussed by Drucker and others are inevitable.

Then you multiply these numbers by 26 years of legalized murder through abortion, you realize that we have lost 1.3 billion young people from our world. If these babies had been born, we would have a large number of young people driving the consumer market. We could plan on an expanding number of young people entering our workforce, buying houses and cars and contributing to a growing world economy.

Abortion Is Not a Private Decision

Perhaps the most obvious outcome of all the emerging population numbers is that it puts a lie to one of the most frequent claims of those who say they are "pro-choice."

These people say that abortion is a private decision between a woman and her abortionist. They claim that the decision does not affect anyone else and the rest of us should just keep our noses out of their business.

Now, after 26 years of legalized abortion, we see that this is simply not true. The decision to have an abortion affects the entire society. Because of the population shifts brought about by 26 years of legalized abortion in the United States and almost a century of pushing family planning programs around the globe, the impact on each person's daily life is clear:

• We each pay more money in Social Security each week than we would have to otherwise. You will note on page 2 that the Packard Foundation last year gave $300,000 to a group lobbying for legalized abortion in Brazil. Yet, the U.S. News & World Report article cited earlier states that Brazil "is currently undergoing a financial meltdown so perilous it periodically scorches Wall Street." The USN&WR article goes on to observe that "Brazil has seen a dramatic decline in its fertility rate over the last generation. In 1960, a Brazilian woman on average had more than six children over her lifetime; today, her counterpart has just 2.3 children. As a result, in a land once known for its celebration of dental-floss bikinis and youthful carnival exuberance, pension debt has become the public's central preoccupation. The problem is so critical that a recent report by the Ministry of Health concludes that aging of the population is now the nation's most important challenge and that, if the government doesn't take urgent action, we may be faced in the coming years with the problem of street elders."
• We pay more in income tax each year, both at the federal and state level. With less people in the work force and an aging population, we have fewer and fewer working taxpayers to contribute the funds to run the government. Thus the contribution from each individual is higher today than it would have been had 38 million babies not been aborted in the United States.
• Our health care costs are rising and our insurance costs are higher than they need to be. It is perfectly clear that health care costs are higher for the elderly than they are for the young. The elderly get sick more often, incur injuries more frequently, and take longer to recover. As the population ages, it is inevitable that our health care costs will rise. The only way to balance things out is for there to be more young people paying for health insurance to offset the costs of the elderly.

It is clear from even a cursory look at the affects of abortion that it is not now, nor has it ever been a private decision that only affects the woman and her child. Legalized abortion has affected the moral climate of our nation and now is affecting the pocketbook of every American citizen.

What to Do With This Information

There is a temptation to rush out with the information presented in the last few pages and expect that everyone will immediately see the light and change the laws on abortion. Dr. Bernard Nathanson expected just such a result when he produced the "Silent Scream."

But we all know that that video, as powerful as it was, was not enough to change the minds of those that are adamantly pro-abortion. It didn't even have the expected impact on middle-of-the-road people.

Although the evidence on the shrinking world population, and the effect that it will have on the economy, is mounting, we must be prepared to launch a long-term education effort. We suggest you start with the schools. During my recent speaking tours, I told many high school students about the under-population crisis and the need for larger families. I found the young people to be eager to learn the facts. They clearly grasped the enormity of the problem and were concerned.

But educating young students is just a start. You should educate yourself on the issue (buy some of the books mentioned in this report) and then educate the media, elected officials and the general public. It will most likely take a few years before what we know today is widely accepted, but it will never happen unless all pro-lifers are willing to spend the time to learn the facts and then share those facts with others. Remember, "what you have heard in secret, shout from the rooftops."

We have before us a real opportunity to change the abortion discussion and, in addition to all the moral reasons why abortion is wrong, present the American public and the world with economic reasons to oppose the heinous killing of our babies. Please do everything in your power to expose the truth in September and October this year.

Five More Stop Giving To PP

Planned Parenthood receives more than $135 million each year in donations from corporations, foundations and individuals. For many years, Doug Scott has been running the Corporate Funding Project, which is aimed at getting corporations to stop giving to PP. Life Decisions International (P.O. Box 907, Washington, DC 20044) operates this project. LDI can be reached at 202-347-2066).

LDI has recently removed the names of five corporations from its list of corporate supporters of PP. The following companies no longer support Planned Parenthood:

Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Merrill Lynch, New York City, NY Peter Kiewit Sons, Omaha, NE Roche, Palo Alto, CA

This brings to 60 the number of corporations that are known to have stopped funding Planned Parenthood since the Corporate Funding Project has been in existence. Praise God!

These five new corporations removed from the list are extremely important because General Mills had been considered "especially rabid in their pro-Planned Parenthood position" and Peter Kiewit Sons was identified by LDI as being a strong supporter of PP. If these organizations can be convinced to change their position, there is hope for all to change.

If we are to ultimately defeat the evil empire of Planned Parenthood it is important that we stop all forms of funding of the organization. The LDI list is the only PP funding list recognized by STOPP International. Doug Scott does a fantastic job keeping up to date on the corporate funding of PP and you can be sure of getting a current list from him.

We encourage all our supporters to contact LDI to order a copy of the list of corporate supporters of PP. It is available for $10. The information discussed in this issue of The Ryan Report should be of particular concern to all corporations. Their customer base is eroding. If something is not done soon, they may find it very difficult to find new customers in the 21st century. Please renew your efforts to educate corporate supporters of PP and the population control movement.

Missouri Legislature Approves Limits On PP

For the last few years, we have been telling you of the struggle PP has been having in Missouri. For three years in a row, the state has voted not to give any money to PP. Last year, the state persevered in defending a lawsuit brought by PP. A judge ruled that the state could put restrictions on its money and prohibit any organization that performs abortion.

On May 6, 1999, legislators in Missouri approved a budget for next year that will place additional restrictions on Planned Parenthood.

The restrictions are part of the state's $16.8 billion operating budget. The budget provides that the only way PP can receive any family planning money is to adhere to the restrictions to ensure that no state money pays for abortions. The restrictions were spelled out in a bill that the Senate approved 29-0 and the House approved 140-19. They were added to the funding bill for the state health department.

Under the measure, groups that get family planning money and their abortion affiliates must not share the same or even similar names. They cannot share medical facilities, business offices or waiting rooms. Nor can they share expenses, employee wages or equipment. The legislation also requires annual, independent audits to make sure Planned Parenthood complies with the rules. Backers said the bill will ensure that state tax dollars do not subsidize the group's abortion services.

Erika Fox of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri said the restrictions intrude on internal operations of Planned Parenthood. She indicated PP is considering another court challenge.

A New Angel

Long time STOPP supporters know that we have used the pages of this report to welcome, through the years, each of our grandchildren. Being pro-life, we recognize the fact that a child is a child at the moment of fertilization. We take joy, then, in recognizing the birth of each grandchild after he or she has spent nine months in the womb.

This month we want to let you know that God called our sixth grandchild, Francis Sedlak, to heaven, after only three months of life in the womb.

The entire family was anxiously awaiting Francis's birth and was saddened by the ending of this life. We know that God has a plan and that He has called Francis home to be with grandparents and other relatives who have died.

We ask all STOPP supporters to please pray for Francis's parents, Frank and AnneMarie, and for our whole family as we realize our loss and remember that we now have a new angel in heaven.

This Month's Action Items

• Educate yourself on the real facts about our world underpopulation crisis.
• Inform others of these facts and the connections between the "graying of the population" and the millions of babies killed each year by surgical and chemical abortion.
• Begin now to prepare for the media blitz in September and October trumpeting the fact that the world population will reach six billion people. Be ready to answer the lies with the truth.
• Alert your community to the effects of 26 years of legal surgical abortion. Talk of the 38 million dead and the effect on Social Security, Medicare, etc.
• Educate yourself on any "family planning" funds in your state and local budgets. Fight these funds. If you cannot get them eliminated, try to add language like that used in Missouri to force PP to end its abortion services or lose the money.
• Continue to fight Title X, Title XX and all family planning money in the federal government this year. Contact your members of Congress.
• Send a tax-deductible donation today to help us keep fighting Planned Parenthood.
• Pray that God will lead us in our work, and that we will always have the courage to do His will.

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