UN Agency Urges US to Reinstate Funds to Protect Women
The United Nations’ family planning agency has urged the United States to reinstate its funding, which has been cut for the third year over abortion rules, to help protect the lives of millions of women and girls. The U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) said the United States has withheld funding for the third year over its work in China despite denying accusations that it was involved in “coercive abortion” as part of China’s population control programme. The cuts came after Donald Trump’s administration in 2017 reinstated a policy known as the “global gag rule” that requires NGOs receiving U.S. family planning funds to certify they do not provide abortions or abortion advice. “It was a big blow for us to lose this funding,” said UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem, a pediatrician and epidemiologist from Panama before she took the post in 2017. “The United States funding is very precious to UNFPA…
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