UNFPA Funding

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Blogger Dom Bettinelli notes:

HOUSE COULD VOTE TO RESTORE UNFPA FUNDING TONIGHT

June 14, 2005

The U.S. House could hold a floor vote as early as tonight on an amendment to restore funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The Population Research Institute has repeatedly documented the UNFPA’s involvement with China’s one-child policy. Contact your congressman and let him know what you think about restoring UNFPA funding.

UNFPA promotes population control around the world and has been involved in promoting abortion, explicit sex education and condoms for children, and coercive population control programs. UNFPA continues to subsidize Communist China’s Draconian one-child policy. In China, married couples are officially allowed to have only one or two children, with heavy fines, loss of employment, and other sanctions facing those who have more. Such systematic abuse of human rights often leads to forced abortion and sterilization in the world’s most populous country.

Tonight, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D.-N.Y.) will likely offer an amendment to the State, Justice, and Commerce appropriations bill to restore UNFPA funding. The last time around, UNFPA funding lost by the slender margin of 219 to 216.

To contact your congressman and politely express your opinion on this issue, go to www.house.gov to find office phone numbers or call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121. It’s best to call a congressman’s local district office, rather than his Washington office, if you can.

 

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What it helps pay for:

Congress is preparing to vote on an amendement that would restore U.S. funding for a United Nations agency accused of subsidizing communist China’s coercive population control program.

The United Nations Population Fund’s activities assist government efforts to force married couples to have only one or two children at most, according to an investigation by the Population Research Institute in 2001 and determinations by the U.S. State Department in 2002 and 2004. Penalties for breaking the law include heavy fines, loss of employment and other sanctions…"

"…Mosher said the UNFPA subsidizes a “despicable” program of forced contraception, abortion and sterilization that should reform or be abolished, not rewarded.

“So-called pro-choice leaders are revealed for the frauds that they are when they support money for this United Nations agency,” he said.

Currently, a provision of U.S. law called the Kemp-Kasten Amendment directs the federal government to withhold funding from international organizations that assist coercion in population control programs. …"

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