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01-31-2003, 08:07 PM
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:black'>Friday, Jan. 31, 2003
Pro-Abortion Democrats Block Aid to Afghan Women
Austin Ruse reports:
Congressional supporters of the U.N. Population Fund have refused to concede defeat and hope to restore 2002 funding and establish 2003 funding for the troubled agency, even if it means rewriting U.S. law and precipitating a federal budget crisis.
Michael Schwartz, vice president for government relations for Concerned Women for America and a veteran Washington lobbyist, told Ruse's Friday Fax, "I don’t think there is any single issue more contentious than UNFPA funding in the entire appropriations process. The question of UNFPA may make it impossible to agree on an Omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of 2003.”
In a decision that has been widely reported, the Bush administration declined to release $34 million dollars earmarked for UNFPA in the 2002 federal budget after a U.S. investigation determined that UNFPA continued to support forced abortions in China. The administration then transferred the money to the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). On Jan. 16, USAID informed Congress that it intended to use the money on programs to improve the health of children and mothers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, congressional Democrats blocked this initiative, hoping to keep open the possibility of shifting the money back to UNFPA.
Hypocrites (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtm l?a=2003/1/31/115327)</span></span>
Pro-Abortion Democrats Block Aid to Afghan Women
Austin Ruse reports:
Congressional supporters of the U.N. Population Fund have refused to concede defeat and hope to restore 2002 funding and establish 2003 funding for the troubled agency, even if it means rewriting U.S. law and precipitating a federal budget crisis.
Michael Schwartz, vice president for government relations for Concerned Women for America and a veteran Washington lobbyist, told Ruse's Friday Fax, "I don’t think there is any single issue more contentious than UNFPA funding in the entire appropriations process. The question of UNFPA may make it impossible to agree on an Omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of 2003.”
In a decision that has been widely reported, the Bush administration declined to release $34 million dollars earmarked for UNFPA in the 2002 federal budget after a U.S. investigation determined that UNFPA continued to support forced abortions in China. The administration then transferred the money to the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). On Jan. 16, USAID informed Congress that it intended to use the money on programs to improve the health of children and mothers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, congressional Democrats blocked this initiative, hoping to keep open the possibility of shifting the money back to UNFPA.
Hypocrites (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtm l?a=2003/1/31/115327)</span></span>