House Republicans Stave Off Return of UNFPA Funding

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The House of Representatives has voted 216 to 211 to block Democratic amendments to a $30 billion bill that withholds funds from questionable U.N. family planning programs, some of which collaborate in forced abortion and sterilization in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).  A year ago the Bush administration cancelled $34 million in UNFPA funding because of concerns about UN activities in China. But Reps. Joseph Crowley (N.Y., D.) and Barbara Lee (Oakland, D.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif., D.) tried to scupper the president’s policy and to restore UNFPA funding.  The Population Research Institute was the first group in the United States to call attention to abusive practices in the PRC, the result of a number of fact-finding missions to Mainland China in the mid-1990s. These findings bore fruit in Bush’s decision to cut off taxpayer funding of UNFPA.  For newswire coverage:  https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/07/16/MN138923.DTL and https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030715/ap_on_go_co/congress_foreign_affairs_4   To visit PRI’s website:  https://www.pop.org