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conform to the laws and religious, ethi
cal and cultural values of a country.
The Vatican planned to state its posi
tion on the draft on Tuesday. It wasn’t
likely to accept the reproductive rights
and contraception sections. The Vatican
was the lone dissenter in the previous
two U.N. population conferences.
Argentina said it would oppose
those sections. Other countries also
may express reservations during
Tuesday's session.
Third World delegates questioned
whether poor nations could pay their
assigned two-thirds share of the tar
get of $17 billion yearly for population
and health programs.
And they said the almost total con
cern with sexual issues left little time
for discussing development.
A working group forged a compro
mise on reproductive health that the
whole committee approved late Monday
afternoon. The delegates filling the com
mittee room broke into applause.
The working group sidestepped the
Vatican’s objections to a right to “fertili
ty regulation,” which it said could mean
abortion under World Health Organiza
tion definitions.
It was changed to “regulation of
fertility” to separate it from the WHO
terminology. Nicolaas Biegman, the
Dutch diplomat who chaired the com
mittee, said it was a deliberately am
biguous solution.
The Vatican won reference to
parental responsibility in the section
on adolescent sex counseling. It also
succeeded in getting in two state
ments proclaiming that abortion
should not be promoted as a means of
family planning.
Biegman told reporters, “I don’tt!
they have been able to turn thespj
the document, which is indivii
choice, including artificial contract
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family situation."
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twice about participating” in
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he said.
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