President Bush Denies Funding For Coercive Abortion. Reid Opposed Bush Action In 2007.

Lifenews.com reports that "President Bush has again refused to direct taxpayer funds to a United Nations agency accused of promoting abortion and backing the one-child forced-abortion policy in China. Bush revoked funding for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) for the seventh consecutive year. The White House is withholding almost $40 million in funding from the UN agency because the State Department has determined that it has violated the Kemp-Kasten amendment of 1985." 

Lifenews.com notes that Kemp-Kasten is a "pro-life law that ensures no public funds can go to groups that promote forced abortions overseas."  Bush has has denied $235 million in taxpayer funds to the UNFPA since 2001.

How bad is the One Child Policy in China supported by UNFPA?" The libertarian Cato Institute’s Stephen Moore says, “this program will go down in history as one of the greatest abuses of human rights in the 20th century.”  That program receives funding from the UN Population Fund. 

And where is "pro-life" Harry Reid on this?  On September 6, 2007 “pro-life” Senator Harry Reid voted against an amendment attached to the 2008 State/ Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2764) “To prohibit funding of organizations that support coercive abortion” -programs like China’s inhumane One Child Policy funded by the UN Population Fund. The amendment says, “…none of the funds made available in this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be made available to any organization or program which, as determined by the President, supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”

You can't call yourself pro-life and vote against amendments "to prohibit funding of organizations that support coercive abortion."  The same goes for "pro-lifers" who oppose the Mexico City policy to stop funding to groups promoting and performing abortions in other countries.

By the way, how can you call yourself pro-choice and say you believe in reproductive rights if you support funding to programs which practice coercive abortion? 

Good for President Bush.

Comments

[veny dawson]

It is a right step by president bush. Abortion is action against humanity but country like china has to be accepting this. Because they facing highest population of the world.
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[Don Nelson]

Veny, thanks for stopping by. I'm not sure if you are saying that abortion is wrong and inhumane but China needs to have a forced abortion policy because it is so big.

If that's what you are saying I think it threatens universal human rights. If abortion is wrong because it kills innocent humans, but it is believed to be necessary due to overpopulation, it jeapordizes other human beings too who may have to be deprived of life due to over population. That argument can be used to kill other people, not just unborn humans.

Is China or the world overpopulated? We could put all of the people in the world in the state of Texas and they would have 900 feet or so of space per person. For a family of 6, that would be a 5400 foot housing lot.

Abortion and the one child policy has had a devastating impact on China. I think the ratio of boys to girls is about 119-100 girls. It's especially higher in certain areas. The same is true with India. That's going to have a horrible impact on Chinese society. In fact, it already is.

And with so few babies being born and so many old people, there will not be enough young people in China to pay for the needs of the elderly or provide services. I'm speculating, but I believe that since China has had such a low fertility rate and so many more boys than girls, it's time as a great country is very limited. It's very sad. Demographers know that we are in big trouble and that we are facing a population bust in this century, but many keep saying that we are overpopulated and we need abortion to thin the herd. Even if I dropped my pro-life argument, I think the One Child Policy and Abortion and Contraception are going to have very bad consequences for future generations.

Thanks again. Have a nice day.