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United Nations Population Fund May Receive U.S. Funding - Vote Set for Today

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.

Source: Population Research Institute

Cross-posted: ProLifeBlogs

Posted by tim at June 14, 2005 1:20 PM

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