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Article: China's family planning program is just the beginning: the Bush Administration has all funding for family planning in its crosshairs.(United Nations. Population Fund)
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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IN JULY 2002, THE BUSH ADMINistration caused rejoicing in its rightwing base by rescinding $34 million that Congress had appropriated for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The move was a major escalation in the torture of a thousand tiny cuts that ultra-conservatives are inflicting upon family planning programs worldwide. It was based on charges that UNFPA was complicit in forced abortions and sterilizations in China.
The argument was that the move would punish both China and the agency. None of the punishers mentioned collateral damage to women and families in the 150 other countries where UNFPA supports reproductive health and education programs, but ...