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...sponsored conference on the defensive around the flash points of abortion and sex education for teens. At least two Prime Ministers from Islamic countries decided, at the last minute, not to attend, and four Middle Eastern nations announced they were boycotting the affair entirely. At the same time, the Vatican made a highly unusual personal attack on the leader of the U.S. delegation, Vice President Al Gore, for his government's prominent role in setting the agenda...
...committee at the U.N. population conference overrode Vatican objections and adopted a controversial paragraph that endorses family planning and does not reject abortion. The paragraph is now part of the 20-year "Program of Action" for slowing the world's population growth, which will be voted on by the entire conference next Tuesday. Hot spots ahead: discussions on teen-age sex and contraception, slated for next week...
Delegates at the United Nations population conference may have reached a broad consensus on the issue of abortion -- but the Vatican is not likely to sign off on it. The new text places priority on making family planning available to reduce the need for abortions. It says abortion should not be encouraged as a method of family planning and its legality should be left to individual countries. Tim Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, told TIME senior writer Eugene Linden that most countries had signed on to the compromise language. "We won," Wirth told Linden Thursday night...
...consensus over a policy document at the population conference fell apart today with the Vatican's insisting the statement was pro-abortion. Seven countries followed the Vatican in condemning it, despite the fact that its wording had been agreed to in a Tuesday consensus aimed at pleasing conservative critics. Some countries are now losing patience with the Pope's diehard stance, which has made allies of the Vatican and Islamic fundamentalists. Said a delegate from Ghana: "I'm a Catholic, but I think the Vatican is behaving just like the proverbial ostrich...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...