Anti-Catholic ‘Catholics for a free Choice’ Encourages Restoration of US Funding to UNFPA

NEW YORK, November 25, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), is promoting an initiative for renewed US funding of the United Nations Population Fund (NFPA).  The UNFPA supports programs aimed at reducing world population.  Kissling was one of 9 “religious” delegates (and the only “Catholic”) that visited China under a CFFC initiative.  In May of 2002, the US State Department investigated UNFPA’s involvement in China.  The investigation found that “the population programs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) retain[ed] coercive elements in law and practice…The PRC has a longstanding and draconian program of controlling birth rates, including imposing crushing fines on parents who deviate from the number of children viewed as appropriate by the state.” UNFPA provides financing for PRC “family-planning” activities including expenditures for “surgical and other medical equipment…Although such equipment has legitimate uses, it also facilitates the…performance of abortions”.  The U.S., under the leadership of President Bush, cancelled financial support of the fund because of UNFPA support for China’s one-child policy. U.S. law precludes support for the UNFPA.  The Kemp-Kasten Amendment prohibited financing for any group that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization”.  Kissling founded CFFC in the 1980’s, a dissenting group which promotes abortion and contraception.  In the 1970s, she directed one of the first family planning clinics to provide legal abortions in the United States.  CFFC is one of 12 groups included in Lincoln, Nebraska Bishop Bruskewitz’s edict of excommunication.  The excommunication applies to individuals who belong to one of these dissenting organizations, characterized as “perilous to the Catholic Faith”.  To read CFFC’s report, go to:  https://www.cath4choice.org/new/111903ChinaReport.htm   To read the State Department’s findings on UNFPA and China, go to:  https://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/other/12128.htm   To read recent LifeSite coverage of UNFPA in China, go to:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/oct/011005c.html   To read Kissling bio, go to:  https://www.cath4choice.org/nobandwidth/English/media/francis.htm   To read Bruskewitz denunciation and excommunication of CFFC, go to:  https://www.excommunication.net/Canonical_action/Bruskewitz_excomm.htm