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Conference in conflict about options for women
The Associated Press
CAIRQ, Egypt — One of the few female heads of government struck back at the Vatican and Muslim fundamentalists yesterday by defending abortion and sex education and making a plea to curb the population boom "for Earth's sake."
The outspoken prime minister of
Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland,
framed a key issue of the U.N. population conference: Giving power to women as the way to slow birth rates.
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, the only other female leader present, supported women's equality but took a far more conservative view on abortion and sexual issues.
control and abortion in all cases, while Muslim fundamentalists say the draft plan of action promotes promiscuity, homosexuality and a loosening of family ties.
The Vatican opposes artificial birth
ductive health and family planning services, reproductive rights, adolescent sex education and abortion.
In three preliminary meetings, delegates to the conference agreed to more than 90 percent of the plan of action. But the most contentious issues must still be resolved —repro-
Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that participants were "very day to" a consensus on the subjects still in dispute. But, he predicted, the Vatican would not accept the final document despite compromise Ian-
guage being worked out by the European Union.
Papal representative Joaquín Navarro reiterated the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to references in the draft to "reproductive health," calling the phrase implicit recognition of abortion accessible to all.
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are based on reported homosexual behavior or attraction since age 15. The lower estimates are based on reported same-sex sexual behavior during the previous five years.
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and a co-author of the study. "I think in most individuals there is some sort of range. You may be more heterosexual; you may be more homosexual."
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WASHINGTON — Almost one-fifth of Americans have been attracted to someone of the same sex at some time since age 15, according to a new study that has been criticized by some statisticians but touched by gay rights activists.
The study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Health Policy Studies in Washington, found that between 6.2 percent and 20.8 percent of U.S. men and 3.3 percent and 17.8 percent of U.S. women could be considered "incidentally homosexual." The higher numbers
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