Dear Friend of the Family,

Thirty years ago, United Families International was organized.  Today one of its main purposes is that of fighting the negative, anti-family movement at the United Nations. We have succeeded, for the time being, in holding off the pervasive activity of well-funded, well-organized groups whose main goal is to "work towards a world where women, men and young people everywhere have control over their own bodies, and therefore their destinies".

This quote, taken directly from the International Planned Parenthood Federation's (IPPF) most recent financial statement shows just how dedicated our enemies are to sexual and reproductive rights for all. Translated, this means a right to abortion, same-sex marriage, and sexual and gender equality.

Over the years UFI has added other important programs to our mission. However, no work we do is more important than our international policy at the UN. The reason is simple, while our state chapters are securing a future for the family at home, anti-family policies are being forced on states and nations through treaties and documents negotiated by non-elected individuals and organizations who have not been successful on the national or local levels.

We have always recognized how quickly and easily national rights at home can diminish by what happens in the halls of the United Nations. And, the main reason is money, power and the influence that organizations like IPPF have on the process. 

IPPF is a self-described "global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive rights for all...a world wide movement of national organizations working with and for communities and individuals."  IPPF works in 180 countries around the world through its 152 member associations.

IPPF was incorporated in 1977 under a UK Act of Parliament, which outlined purposes were for the "advancement of health or the saving of lives...and the advancement of human rights". 

Instead of advancing health and saving lives, IPPF has become the world's leader of abortion services. IPPF saw revenues in excess of $120 million dollars and provided over 435,000 abortions last year alone.

Of the 152 member associations, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the largest providers of abortion services for IPPF. In the United States, the number of abortions performed dropped. However, PPFA provided over 289,000 abortions, an increase of 9% over the year before and roughly 25% of all abortions performed in the United States.

These statistics are alarming. But, even more alarming is the fact that taxpayer's money by way of federal, state and local governments is making its way through IPPF member associations and IPPF coffers. Nearly one-third or $300 million of PPFA's billion dollar budget comes from government grants, like the Title X Federal Family Planning Program.

IPPF Funding

Funding to IPPF comes through other government grants, corporations and individuals. Some of the notable contributions include:

- the countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Germany, and the UK.

- the organizations of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS as well as the World Health Organization.

WORLDWIDE TRENDS

(Taken from the Guttmacher Institute, the official research arm of Planned Parenthood.)

- Induced abortions declined worldwide between 1995 and 2003, from nearly 46 million to approximately 42 million.

- About one in five pregnancies worldwide end in abortion.

- Most abortions occur in developing countries-35 million annually, compared with seven million in developed countries.
 
- PPFA is planning to open three new super-sized clinics in the United States this year. They will be located in Massachusetts, Illinois and Texas.

- African-American women are 4.8 times as likely as non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion.   
 
 It is the work of UFI and other pro-family organizations that are helping to reduce abortions and eliminate sex-selective abortion and infanticide. Protecting the family by respecting all life is a human right and is worth the fight.

What You Can Do

You can help stop the anti-family, anti-life movement at the UN by signing UFI's Universal Right to Life and Recognition of the Family petition today.  Over 2000 Have Signed!

If you are one of the thousands that have already signed, help by forwarding on this email to your family and friends and asking them to sign on, too.

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