Posted on 01/22/2005 10:41:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The issue of abortion could tie up a bill intended to fund relief efforts for victims of the tsunami and earthquake in Southeast Asia.
Noting that there are an estimated 150,000 pregnant women living in the numerous areas affected by the tsunami who need medical care and attention, abortion advocates claim the UNFPA is the only agency that can help them.
Pro-abortion New York Democratic congressmen Steve Israel and Joseph Crowley want the United States to use taxpayer funds to support the United Nations outfit.
"Fifty thousand of those women will give birth in three months, and many of those women have lost their maternity wards," Israel told the Associated Press.
However, the Bush administration revoked funding for the UN group during each of President Bush's first four years in office because of its ties to China's population control program that involves forced abortions.
A State Department investigating team found that the UN agency is complicit in the policy, which involves forced abortions and sterilizations, false imprisonment, torture and other human rights abuses.
The president diverted the $34 million allocated to the U.N. group to a USAID program that provides health care for poor women and children in other countries and for a program that combats the sexual trafficking of women – another problem in the destroyed region.
Crowley said he thought Congress should extend a one-time funding grant to the UNFPA.
But, a Bush administration spokesman said that's not likely going to happen.
"We are not able to fund UNFPA right now. The restrictions apply across the board until there's a change in the Chinese policies that UNPFA participates in," said Robert Hilton, a spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
At a meeting of the House International Relations Committee last month, Congressional leaders looked into the continued human rights abuses under China's population control programs.
Representative Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican pointed out that the UNFPA did not accept an invitation to attend the hearing to explain its support for China's controversial policies.
"Despite numerous credible forced abortion reports from impeccable sources, including human rights organizations like Amnesty International, journalists, former Chinese population control officials and, above all, from the women victims themselves, high officials at UNFPA always dismiss and explain it all away," he explained.
Dems are such Slime!
"Fifty thousand of those women will give birth in three months"
and we dems have to get them abortions before it's too late!
Seriously, I find it hard to believe that UNFPA is the only organization that can aid these pregnant women. What about the Red Cross? What about the various religious groups?
Just another reason to get the US OUT of the UN and the UN out of the US!!
They give our TAXes to support our enemies! What kind of fools are we to allow this crap to continue!
These people don't have a RIGHT to our money. If we don't hold the line on such a basic moral issue when it's crunch time, than our previous denial of funds was just convenient posing.
LOL!
I wish W would offer to arrange visectomys to Steve Israel and Joseph Crowley, preferably using pinking shears.
IMO if the reports about the horrors of the tsunami
victims are even 50% true (and I don't doubt they are
true), these 150,000 pregnant women have been through so much already that giving birth without the midwifery of UNFPA would seem an easy ordeal. Totally natural. Sure,
some of them may die; but stats show that a percentage
of ALL women undergoing childbirth, even given the
facilities of modern hospitals, die. Some conditions
cannot be controlled no matter how adept the caretakers
are.
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