WASHINGTON, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - LifeSiteNews.com has been informed that the Bush Administration announced today that the United Nations Population Fund’s support for the coercive Chinese forced abortion and involuntary sterilization program makes it ineligible for United States funding. UNFPA will thus not receive any federal funding for the Fiscal Year 2004. Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations and a leading human rights advocate in Congress commented on the decision stating, “The UNFPA continues to be guilty of shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity, and the United States will have no part in subsidizing them. In refusing to fund the UNFPA, President Bush and our country have taken the side of the oppressed and have refused to cooperate with the oppressor. The United States will not fund the brutal and oppressive Chinese government’s one-child-per-couple policy.” In some of the strongest criticism the UNFPA has received Congressman Smith said, “If UNFPA lobbied the Chinese government to stop forced abortion as aggressively as they lobby the United States to overturn human rights policy, there would be less suffering in China right now . . . It is long past time for the UNFPA to sever its ties with China’s one-child-per-couple family planning program that relies on forced abortion, involuntary sterilization and heavy economic penalties on women to achieve its results.” Smith called on other countries to “look at the evidence and hold the UNFPA and the Chinese population control program accountable at The Hague for crimes against humanity.” He explained, “The UNFPA has funded, provided crucial technical support and, most importantly, provided cover for massive crimes of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization. Tens of millions of children have been slaughtered - their mothers robbed of their children by the State. The UNFPA has aggressively defended this barbaric policy that makes brothers and sisters illegal, and makes women the pawns of the population control cadres.”