As reported by LifeNews:
The world mourned the loss of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, but her death was more than a setback for those hoping for democracy in this war-torn nation. Bhutto was a member of an international pro-life women's movement that understood abortion causes medical, mental health and other problems for women.At a U.N. population conference in the early 90s Bhutto stood against abortion. Kathryn Jean Lopez (The Corner) quotes George Weigel's Witness to Hope:
The image of the Cairo conference as a clash between the United States and the overwhelming majority of world opinion on the one side, and an isolated, prudish, mysogynist Vatican on the other, was shattered in the first hours of the conference itself. On September 5, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan -- unmistakably a woman, unmistakably Harvard-educated, and unmistakably a major political figure -- took to rostrum during the opening statements to defend the "sanctity of human life" and to condemn the Cairo draft document for trying to "impose adultery, sex education . . . and abortion" on all countries.


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