UN family planning agency looks to new US funding

he U.N. family planning agency could see the United States pay at least 10 percent of its budget following U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to restore funding, the agency's head said on Tuesday.

Obama announced the decision on Friday, reversing a policy of his predecessor George W. Bush, who banned U.S. government funding for family planning services by clinics or groups that offered abortion services or counseling in other countries.

The U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) says its does not promote or support abortion. But Bush ended funding for it in 2002, saying it supported a one-child-per-family policy in China that was carried out partly through enforced abortions. UNFPA denied that it did so.

UNFPA executive director Thoraya Obaid said Obama's action would "provide support to women in the poorest countries of the world."

UNFPA executive director Thoraya Obaid said Obama's action would "provide support to women in the poorest countries of the world."

And shall we take a look at what some of that "support", or services by another term, might be? Let's...

Post-abortion family planning: a practical guide for programme managers
8 INDUCED ABORTION AND MENSTRUAL REGULATION SERVICES
8.3 Services to Offer
Pre-abortion counselling to give women the opportunity to make a fully-informed choice about the abortion is an integral part of induced abortion/MR services. Managers must ensure that providers understand the necessity of including family planning counselling and service delivery as an essential element of all induced abortion and MR services as well. Since most cases of induced abortion/MR are elective procedures, the opportunities are greater for providing family planning at the time of the induced abortion than during treatment of abortion complications. With induced abortion/MR, the woman is generally neither sick nor heavily sedated; therefore, she is alert and may be receptive to counselling. Frequently the woman will select a contraceptive method prior to the procedure, which can then be provided following the induced abortion or MR.

And here's some more "services" that are offered...
Improving the Quality of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
Since 1994, services in many countries have been reoriented to improve their quality and better meet clients’ needs and wishes—through a wider choice of contraceptive methods, better follow-up, evidence-based guidelines and protocols (see below) and improved training of staff to provide information and counselling (with an emphasis on sensitivity, privacy, confidentiality and informed choice).

And let's not forget that...
The international community has agreed that reproductive choice is a basic human right. But without access to relevant information and high-quality services, that right cannot be exercised. (except in China where no choice is given)
Same link...Guided by paragraph 8.25 of the Cairo Programme of Action, UNFPA does not support or promote abortion as a method of family planning. It accords the highest priority and support to voluntary family planning to prevent unwanted pregnancies so as to eliminate recourse to abortion.
Given the various links that sounds like double talk, despite the attempts at word smithing.

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