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UNFPA Rebuked for Complicity in China's Forced Abortion Program |
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(Washington, DC) — With a commanding, overwhelming bipartisan vote of 192-233, the House of Representatives today soundly rejected a bid to subsidize the United Nation's Population Fund, which has refused to divest itself from coercive population and forced abortion programs in "For 25 years, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been an aggressive and shameful accessory to gross crimes against women and babies in the Peoples Republic of China," said Rep. Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee. “Despite being admonished to do otherwise on countless occasions, the UNFPA continues to be the chief apologist and enabler for past and ongoing crimes against humanity.” Smith, who is also co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, helped lead the floor fight against an amendment offered by Ms. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) that would have suspended all “Let’s not forget that the UNFPA has whitewashed, sanitized, and facilitated--it has been an accomplice-- Smith said that in all counties throughout “As violations of human rights go –coercive population control in
“Mrs. Mao—and millions of women like her—needs advocates, not accommodators and enablers of abuse. We must stand with the victims—the oppressed, not with the oppressor. At a minimum, we should not lavish millions of dollars on the friends of the oppressor like the UNFPA,” he said. Smith concluded by citing the UNFPA’s support for “As scandals go, this may be the UN’s worst. Like the oil for food scandal, or the rape of 13 year old girls by UN Peacekeepers in the | ||
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For Immediate Release: June 16, 2005 Contact: David Kush (202) 225-3765 |
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