October 2007 An international proabortion strategy conference, (womendeliver.org) sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund as well as other generous donors was held in London, England in 2007. Ostensibly about maternal mortality and its relationship to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG)s, the conferees discussed openly the international strategy to make abortion on demand available worldwide. The major obstacles to worldwide abortion on demand were identified as:
- Right of doctors and health care workers to conscientiously object to providing abortions.
- The presence of the Roman Catholic Church in S. America, and the presence of Protestant Christian Missionary physicians in Africa.
- The fact that most people in the developing world do not want abortion on demand.
- The use of ultrasonography which “turns the woman’s focus to the personhood of the fetus”.
- Steps were then discussed to combat each of these obstacles.
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