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Population issues |
| Bush is urged to release funds for UN
family planning program
[2-8-02]
President Bush is refusing to release funds
appropriated for support of the United Nations Population Fund, in his
effort to placate the Religious Right. The Christian Science Monitor
carries an
op-ed essay by Professor Steven W. Sinding, former director of the
population program at the US Agency for International Development, who
urges the President to act in accord with the vast majority of
Americans, an in the interests of the world's poor, by helping to fund
responsible family planning programs around the world. |
| UCC Justice and Peace Action Network:
Preserve funding for the UN Population Fund
[1-17-02]
On January 10th, President Bush signaled his intent to cut off funding
for the United Nations Population Fund. UNFPA provides much needed
family planning, HIV/AIDS and STD prevention, sexuality education,
maternal health and other reproductive health services in more than 140
countries. UNFPA often works in places where no other organization is
able to work.
Congress has already approved $34 million for UNFPA,
but the President may invoke his executive powers to withhold funding.
If funding is withheld, it could result in 2 million unwanted
pregnancies, 4,700 maternal deaths, and more than 77,000 infant and
child deaths across the globe.
Last year, President Bush requested $25 million for
UNFPA -- $600,000 of which was to assist women fleeing Afghanistan.
Clearly the Administration believes that UNJA is a critical partner in
improving the lives of women in Afghanistan.
The United Church of Christ General Synod has spoken
for more than 30 years in support of women's reproductive choices and
urged UCC members to resist attempts to erode or negate such choices.
The global situation is dire and will be come far worse if UNFPA funding
is eliminated.
The Justice and Witness Ministries urges you to
contact President Bush and implore him NOT to invoke his executive
powers to withhold funding from UNFPA. Also contact your members of
Congress and ask them to urge the President to continue support of UNFPA.
President George W. Bush 202-456-1414 president@whitehouse.gov
Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121
To find e-mail addresses for Members of Congress: www.house.gov
or www.senate.gov
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PVJ's
Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, PVJ's
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views,
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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