Posted on 01/26/2009 4:10:11 PM PST by NYer
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that President Barack Obama has fulfilled his promise to overturn the Mexico City Policy and fund groups that promote and perform abortions in other countries, he is laying out additional pro-abortion plans. In his statement accompanying his executive order, Obama says UNFPA funding is next.
Funding United Nations Population Fund has long been a controversial topic and President Bush annually withheld the $40 million in taxpayer dollars the UN group had typically received.
He did so because a State Department investigation found the agency was working hand-in-hand with Chinese officials who instituted its one-child population control policy.
The Chinese policy prohibits couples from having more than one child and violators are punished with forced abortions, sterilizations, and are subjected to numerous human rights abuses.
"I look forward to working with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the U.N. Population Fund," Obama said Saturday.
"By resuming funding to UNFPA, the U.S. will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries," he added.
However, President Obama ignored the connection between the UNFPA and the Chinese forced-abortion program.
Following the governmental investigation, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had no doubt that the UNFPA was complicit in the population control program.
"I determined that UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allowed the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion," he wrote.
The State Department investigation came after a groundbreaking probe led by the Population Research Institute.
Colin Mason, PRI’s media director, confirmed to LifeNews.com last November that it stands by its probe showing the UNFPA involved in the program.
"Our investigation remains valid," Mason said. "We put boots on the ground, and made the results available to anyone who wanted them. Those who would disregard our findings show an appalling lack of respect for human rights."
PRI's initial report, entitled "UNFPA, China, and Coercive Family Planning," is based on an investigation conducted by PRI researchers in China's Sihui County.
Relying on interviews with over two dozen victims and witnesses, the 2001 investigation found that coercive abortion and sterilization practices were taking place where the UNFPA had supposedly instituted a "client-centered and voluntary family planning program."
In fact, PRI's investigation discovered that the UNFPA shared an office with the very Chinese family planning officials who were carrying out forced abortions.
Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute, also commented on the potentiality of Obama funding the pro-abortion UN group.
"It would be a shame if Obama abandons both the women of China--and one of his most high-profile backers--in the name of the failed ideology of population control," Mosher told LifeNews.com.
"Americans don't want their money going to an organization--the UNFPA--which works hand-in-glove with China's population control police as they drag women off for forced abortions and forced sterilizations."
Obama's funding the UNFPA would come as no surprise.
The Obama campaign, in an October 2007 response to a survey from the pro-abortion RH Reality Check web site, confirmed Obama would restore funding to the controversial group.
"Yes, Senator Obama would overturn the global gag rule and reinstate funding for UNFPA," Obama's campaign responded.
President Bush has revoked funding for the UNFPA every year during his administration for violating a U.S. law prohibiting sending public funds to groups that promote forced abortions.
Related web sites:
Population Research Institute - http://www.pop.org
PRI YouTube video about UNFPA - http://www.youtube.com/colinpri1
He’s turning out to be even worse than we have all said he would.
Ping!
God forgive us, and God hear our prayers and honor our efforts.
I don’t WANT my money used for this. It’s unconscionable to require a taxpayer to be an accomplice to murder. Isn’t there anything we can do?
We should publicize the lost life that will occur because of Bambi’s policy. Can anyone make an estimate ?
Just so long as it is the libs aborting themselves, I couldn’t care less
I think a lot of buyer’s remorse is starting to set in.
Psalm 146
1Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long.
3 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
5 Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God,
6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;
7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8 the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
10 The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord!
Yes. And you are not going to like the answers.
1) STOP PAYING FEDERAL INCOME TAXES
2) Stop engaging in activities that result in Federal taxes being paid on your behalf (like buying and selling).
3) Stop thinking of the current Federal coup as "my government". It isn't. Not by a long shot.
I told you that you wouldn't like the answers.
I feel physically ill... this man is single-handedly destroying the fabric of our nation and hasn’t even been president one week.
And he hasn't been in office one week yet. Buckle your seatbelt, we're in for a rocky ride.
When Obama meets HIS "maker" I don't think God will be anywhere around.
See post #5. Each aborted child in this country is also a lost tax payer. Do the math ... without sufficient taxes to fund these programs because of SS payments, it is only a matter of time before they legalize euthanasia to knock off those who are financially draining the system. Think about it!
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Yep, Obama never listened to Him anyway.
On the contrary, Zero listens to Satan every day.
You sure he ISN’T Satan?
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