NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 8, 1994
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U.N. looks to stabilize population
Clinton administration urges abortion access
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration is trying to get more liberal abortion language into a United Nations plan to stabilize the world's population.
Already under attack by Roman Catholics and anti-abortion forces, the draft of a 20-year population stabilization program is under negotiation at a U.N.-sponsored meeting in New York. The 170 participating nations are preparing for an international conference on population in September.
The population plan that ultimately is adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, will outline
goals and actions that participating countries should take to help check the world's burgeoning population.
The State Department told its diplomas around the world last month to contact foreign governments and stress the U.S. wish for "stronger language on the importance of access to abortion services" in the draft document.
"The current text, although it notes the high mortality levels and the serious maternal health problems associated with unsafe abortion, is inadequate as it only addresses abortion in cases of rape or incest," the State Department said in its cable.
The draft calls for stabilizing world population — about 5.7 billion today — at 7.8 billion by 2050. Unchecked, it is forecast to increase to 12.5 billion by then.
The State Department cable said "the global community should work
to reduce the demand for abortion by eliminating the unmet need for family-planning services."
But it added that the U.S. delegation "will also be working for stronger language on the importance of access to abortion services."
State Department Counselor Tim Wirth, representing the United States at the New York meeting, said Wednesday that the administration position is: "Abortion should be safe, legal and rare."
The National Right to Life Committee accused the administration of "accelerating efforts to legalize abortion on demand as a population-control method in less-developed nations."
Doug Johnson, the group's legislative director, said the administration "has no moral right to seek to export an ideology that radically devalues human fetal life."
Rwanda's prime minister killed in ethnic disturbance
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwanda's acting prime minister and three U.N. soldiers were killed yesterday when fighting broke out after the deaths of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in a mysterious plane crash.
President Clinton expressed regret for the surge in violence, saying Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyamana "was sought out and murdered" by Rwandan security forces.
The U.N. soldiers were killed in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, U.N. spokesman Joe Sills said. Members of Rwanda's presidential guard reportedly kidnapped them and three Cabinet ministers earlier yesterday.
The whereabouts of the ministers remain unknown, though Radio France Internationale
reported later in the day from Kigali that Labor and Social Affairs Minister Landouda Ndasinga had been killed.
U. N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said there was an unconfirmed report that Uwilingiyamana had been killed while in a U.N. compound in Kigali.
Sills said the United Nations had been denied access to the plane wreckage carrying the presidents and thus could not confirm whether it was shot down Wednesday night.
Rwanda and Burundi have been wracked for decades by fighting between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups, one of Africa's most savage ethnic feuds. Both President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi were Hutus, which are majorities in both countries.
Silicone implants may harm immune system
The Associated Press
A 1975 Dow Corning study showed that a particular type of silicone gel implants harmed the immune system of mice, The New York Times reported yesterday.
The study, which was not made public, could have prevented the marketing of silicone implants that used D4, a type of silicone gel that is highly toxic to the immune system, the Times said.
The 1975 study's finding is also important, the Times said, because thousands of implant recipients who have sued manufacturers complained of immune system disorders caused by leaking silicone.
Dow Corning representative Barbara Carmichael said yesterday the report misrepresented the findings of the study.
The study showed that D4 affected the immune system in mice only when it was combined with another substance not found in silicone implants, she said. The D4 alone, even in high dosages, did not have that effect, she said.
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