Catholic World News News Feature

UNFPA complains Philippines diverted funds for contraceptives to NFP October 29, 2003

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) which promotes abortion, abortifacient contraceptives, and sterilization in its drive toward depopulation, has criticized the government of the Philippines over its allocation of funds.

Florence Tayzon, assistant representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Manila, complained bitterly that the government under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo re-allocated funds destined for contraceptives to natural family planning (NFP).

UNFPA claims $1.5 million was originally allocated for contraceptives in 2000 by then-President Joseph Estrada (ousted by a popular uprising due to a corruption scandal). "They used the money for natural family planning instead of contraceptives," complained Tayzon.

Ignoring the fact that most of the "contraceptives" pushed by UNFPA can cause abortions, Tayzon said "We foresee a larger number of abortions forthcoming. If they don't have access to contraceptives (some of them) will resort to abortion."

Natural family planning experts applauded the Philippine president's decision. "NFP gives parents the opportunity to space their children if they feel that is needed," said Suzanne Lozinski, an NFP practitioner and the Director of Fertility Care of Richmond Hill. "Unfortunately UNFPA seems blind to the fact that NFP is a completely natural method of fertility regulation. Rather than products and chemicals which keep poorer nations dependent, NFP is knowledge, a knowledge that is liberating and grants independence."

NFP is also recognized by the Catholic Church as a moral means of family planning and child spacing that uses the natural cycles designed by God to allow spouses to determine times of fertility and infertility without introducing artificial contraception into their relationship.