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Article: Central Family Planning.(Congrerss has passed legislation which prohibits the United States from funding population control programs, other than voulunary ones)(Brief Article)
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- July 1, 2000
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International aid bureaucrats have a longstanding interest in population control, arguing that one more mouth to feed exacerbates, or even causes, the underdevelopment they are supposed to combat. In 1998, to curb any excess zeal in the pursuit of fewer babies, Congress passed an amendment prohibiting the U.S. from funding any population-control program abroad that wasn't completely voluntary or that used targets and quotas for sterilization or contraceptive use.
These practices, says PRI president Steven Masher, violate the congressional amendment. Mosher thinks Congress should toughen the amendment's enforcement provisions as well: Right now, if USAID violates ...