Posted on 07/23/2002 3:03:51 AM PDT by ppaul
In a rebuff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, the Bush administration said today that it would not contribute to a United Nations agency that it contends provides aid to Chinese government agencies that force women to have abortions. At his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Secretary Powell praised the agency, the United Nations Population Fund, for its "invaluable work."Kudos to President Bush for this rebuff of Powell and his State Dept. cronies who never tire of kissing the UN bureaucrats' slimy asses, and paying for more the deaths of infants and more worldwide government corruption with our tax dollars.
What an interesting reaction from the so-called "pro-choice" crowd. An organization that forces women to have abortions and they support that? Doesnt sound like a "woman's right to choose" is their agenda at all, now does it?
You are so right! You would think that those who "cared about women around the world" would care that some are forced into various forms of forced abortion and that failing that, infanticide is then carried out. And not only on the basis of 'over-population', it is also an effective racial 'cleansing' method to kill children of Korean and/or Japanese paternity.
long-running tensions within the administration between Mr. Bush's conservative advisers, like his political mastermind, Karl Rove, and more moderate officials, like Secretary Powell
What is so moderate about ripping up babies? Is that how one gets to be "moderate", by helping people rip up unborn babies and dissovling them in chemicals?
They better look that word up. I don't think it means what they think it means.
Sorry, but the American taxpayer does not owe the world family planning services.
To quote Bart Simpsom, "Overload. Pleasure Overload!"
I don't know which is better, that Bush is cutting funding to a UN organization, that he is cutting funding that goes to provide abortions, or that he is sticking it in Peacenik Powell's eye.
Nope. Not one cent. If some private organization wants to contribute, that's their prerogative.
I don't know which is better, that Bush is cutting funding to a UN organization, that he is cutting funding that goes to provide abortions, or that he is sticking it in Peacenik Powell's eye.Yeah.
put at risk American aid to the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Export-Import Bank and even the State Department.
Really? Cool...Very cool.
What ... just because they've the stones to admit "abortion is vital to the solution" to their coercive campaign of "Education" and other prongs of population control necessary to ensure folks understand the "Voluntary" nature of our programs?
July 23, 2002
THE United States is withdrawing millions of dollars in funding for the UN Population Fund (UNPFA) over claims the agency promotes abortion and forced sterilisation of women in China.
"Secretary of State Colin Powell has decided ... that US funds for family planning and public health will go through USAID (the US Agency for International Development) and not through the UNPFA," said US state department spokesman Richard Boucher.
The move is in line with the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, passed by Congress in 1985, which denies US funding for coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation, as determined by the President.
The decision accompanied the release of a report conducted by a three-person panel which travelled to China in May to review UNFPA's work there.
UNFPA's activities have come under fire from conservative US lawmakers and supporters of President George W. Bush for promoting abortion as part of its work with China on the country's "one-child" policy.
But the agency, a key source of funding to population control programs in developing countries, has denied funding abortions or coercive family planning practices in China.
U.S. Blocks Money forFamily Clinicsabortion mills Promoted by U.N.
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