PRI Opposes Bid to Refund U.N. Population Fund; Overturn Mexico City Policy

June 29, 2004 - 12:00 PDT

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June 29, 2004

PRI Opposes Bid to Refund U.N. Population Fund; Overturn Mexico City Policy

Cites complicity in China's coercive one-child policy

PRI is the "group leading the fight against the fund", says The New York Times

FRONT ROYAL, VA -- "A storm of pro-UNFPA (United Nations Populations Fund) propaganda has suddenly been unleashed, with articles appearing in The New York Times, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and other media outlets in recent days." says Population Research Institute (PRI) president Steven W. Mosher. "Why the sudden flurry of activity? Because on July 9 population control sympathizers in Congress will offer an amendment to refund the U.N. population unit and overturn the Mexico City policy. This misbegotten amendment would put the U.S. back in the abortion business, even in China, where women have no right to refuse. It should be opposed."

According to PRI's Weekly Briefing of June 25, 2004, "The U.N. Population fund--which spends a huge chunk of its money each year lobbying for more--has launched a media blitz in the U.S. in support of yet another raid on the federal treasury. Standing in the way is the Bush administration's decision, reaffirmed last year for a second time, to deny funding to the U.N. group because of its involvement in China's coercive one-child policy."

The New York Times headlined that the U.S. is "Trying to Isolate U.N. Population Unit." the Times quotes Sterling Scruggs, longtime spokesman for the group, claiming is the UNFPA being "blackballed" by the Bush administration. "It reminds me of the McCarthy era," said Scruggs.

PRI responds, "The truth is, it is not the U.S. isolating the UNFPA, but the UNFPA isolating and marginalizing itself. For 25 years the UNFPA has been the chief international cheerleader for China's one-child policy, lavishing upwards of $200 million in funding on the program, and bestowing prestigious awards on its architects. How can an agency that calls itself pro-choice, that brags about promoting 'reproductive rights', justify involvement with a government that sterilizes and aborts women against their will, and usurps the right of parents to determine the number and spacing of their children?"

PRI continues, "But the complicity runs even deeper than this. Since 1998 the UN Population Fund has run 'model family planning programs' in 32 Chinese counties, where it claims that there are no forced abortions, no targets for sterilizations, and no quotas for childbirths. These counties are free, the UNFPA assured us, of the abuses which characterize the one-child policy as a whole.

"This fig leaf was exploded when PRI investigated a 'model family planning program.' We found young women being ordered in for forced abortions, women facing arrest for the 'crime" of being pregnant without permission, and homes destroyed for refusing to comply with abortion or sterilization orders. (Visit www.pop.org/main.cfm?id=178&r1=2.25&r2=2.00&r3=3.00&r4=0.00&level=3&eid=301 for details) All of this was happening under the very nose of the UNFPA desk officer responsible for the program.

If the UNFPA wants us to resume funding its programs, it should start by withdrawing from China. Its refusal to do so reveals its real agenda, which has less to do with reproductive rights than with a desire to drive down the global birth rate even further. It is, after all, the U.N. Population Fund.

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The Population Research Institute is dedicated to ending human rights abuses committed in the name of "family planning," and to ending counter-productive social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of "overpopulation."

PRI
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Front Royal, VA 22630
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