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Oppose United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Funding
And Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (H.R. 1105), Which Would Fund UNFPA
Using the sample letter(s) on this issue and
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in your own words (or use a sample letter as is), and mail it to your
federal House
representative, your
two federal
senators, and
President Obama.
It's much better to send a form letter than not to send a letter at all.
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Sample Letter on This Issue
Source:
http://www.lifenews.com/int1100.html
(The below letter has been edited.)
John Doe
12345 Main St
Minneapolis MN 55418-3209
February 27, 2009
The Honorable Amy Klobuchar [This legislator is used just as an example for
formatting.]
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-2305
Dear Senator Klobuchar:
Subject: Please Oppose United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Funding and
Omnibus Bill H.R. 1105, Which Would Fund UNFPA
Please oppose funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because
of its participation in human rights violations. Because of UNFPA's participation
in China's one-child policy, I urge you to oppose any legislation that would
financially support UNFPA.
This policy results in coercive abortions and sterilizations; unwilling pregnant
women are dragged into hospitals and forced to undergo a surgical procedure
to which they do not consent. This is barbaric and inhumane. While I believe
that abortion is always wrong because it deprives a whole class of persons
equal protection, UNFPA's involvement in crimes goes beyond the abortion
debate.
No matter what your opinion about family planning and abortion, please take
a good look at this issue. UNFPA claims to help women. But when it participates
in programs like China's one-child policy, it is destroying women's lives
and stealing away their free will.
Omnibus bill H.R. 1105 not only would restore funding to the United Nations
Population Fund, but its language is such that the president or his
administration would not be required to sign off on the funding and make
sure the UNFPA is not violating the Kemp-Kasten law, which forbids funding
groups involved in forced abortions.
Thank you for your consideration of my position on this important issue.
I would appreciate a response to my letter.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
John Doe
Summary of This Issue
Source
at SBA-list.org
Oppose UNFPA
Say NO to U.S. tax dollars paying for forced abortions in China
January 2009: Appended to the statement announcing the end of the Mexico
City Policy, President Obama said: "In addition, I look forward to working
with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the U.N. Population Fund."
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) actively participates in China's
one-child policy. An urban household is allowed only one child; a rural
household, two. Forced or coercive abortions are commonplace as late as seven
to nine months gestation. In late June 2008, the White House released a statement
clarifying and confirming their position on withholding funds from the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). They explained that they were upholding
the Kemp-Kasten provision which declares no funds "...may be made available
to any organization or program, which, as determined by the President of
the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program
of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization." Now Congress wants to
strip Kemp-Kasten from the bill in order to fund UNFPA. That means your tax
dollars would be used to make women undergo unwanted abortions. This is more
than abortion; this is a violation of human rights and must not be funded
by U.S. taxpayers.
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UNFPA
Exposed: Episode 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkw01UaUes&feature=channel_page
All four parts of this video are accessible from this YouTube web page.
More on This Issue
Democrats Shut Down Pro-Life
Move to Stop UNFPA-Forced Abortion Funding
http://www.lifenews.com/int1100.html
"... the appropriations bill Congressional Democrats put forward to fund
the federal government through the end of the years [omnibus bill H.R. 1105]
restores funding to the United Nations Population Fund. ... Every year during
his presidency, President Bush withheld tens of millions in taxpayer funds
from the UNFPA, but Congressional Democrats, with a friend in Barack Obama
in the White House, have restored the funds. ... ACTION: Contact your members
of Congress and urge them to oppose funding the UNFPA and its pro-abortion
activities. ... Ask them to oppose HR 1105 because of it."
Pro-life
Amendments Blocked in Congress
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=93994
"... UNFPA will be given $50 million from today's Omnibus bill. Congressman
Smith also reprimanded the Democratic leaders for neglecting the human rights
abuses against 'Chinese women, children and the family.' 'So, how does Congress
respond to the UNFPA's complicity in China's crimes against women?' Smith
asked. 'Do we demand reform and protection of Chinese women and children?
Heck no. We gut the anti-coercion law and write a $50 million check to the
UNFPA,' Smith said, deriding the Omnibus allocation."
Congressional Democrats
Seek to Restore, Increase Funding to Pro-Abortion UNFPA
http://www.lifenews.com/int1097.html
"... The omnibus bill adds language that makes it so the president or his
administration is not required to sign off on the funding and make sure the
UNFPA is not violating the Kemp-Kasten law which forbids funding groups involved
in forced abortions. ... It is so broadly worded that the UNFPA will receive
funding notwithstanding the operation of any provision of law. As a result,
even if the UNFPA were to violate provisions of law unrelated to abortion,
it would still receive funding. ..."
Potential Obama Move to
Fund UNFPA Renews China Forced Abortion Debate
http://www.lifenews.com/int1092.html
"... The UNFPA promotes family planning efforts in 140 countries, but, in
China, it shares offices and works hand in hand with the same officials who
force women to have abortions and men to be sterilized. The Chinese authorities
also subject violators of the one-child rule to job losses, imprisonment,
house arrest and other human rights abuses. ..."
Obama
Promises to Fund Coercive China One-Child Policy Collaborator
UNFPA
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012609.html
"WASHINGTON, D.C., January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Following on the
heels of the elimination of the Mexico City Policy, President Obama has confirmed
that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which helped instigate,
perpetuate and enforce China's coercive one-child policy, will again receive
taxpayer dollars. ..."
UNFPA
Supports Coercive Family Planning-Including Forced Abortion-in
China
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/oct/011005c.html
"... Stung by earlier criticism of its complicity in China's one-child policy,
the UNFPA is at pains to disavow any connection with targets and quotas,
coercion or abortion. ... Population Research Institute decided to investigate
whether the UNFPA's sweeping claims about its support and management of family
planning programs in China were true. ... PRI believes that, despite UNFPA
claims to the contrary, there is no real distinction between the one-child
policy as carried out in the 32 counties where the UNFPA is active and the
one-child policy found throughout China as a whole. We believe that the evidence
is conclusive: The UNFPA, contrary to its own statements, is participating
in the management and support of a program of forced abortion and forced
sterilization in China, and should therefore be ineligible for US funds.
..."
Beyond
Mexico City
http://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/beyond-mexico-city/
"... This action could be even more monstrous than the reversal of the Mexico
City Policy. The U.S. government ceased funding the UNFPA after independent
investigations found the agency complicit in China's coercive one-child policy
- coercion that includes forced abortions. ... UNFPA funding has been withheld
for that reason since 2002 and the State Department continued to monitor
China's coercive 'family planning' regime."
UNFPA May Get Obama
Administration Funding, But Overpopulation Still Mythical
http://www.lifenews.com/int1099.html
"... Only economic growth and freedom, not deceitful population programs
from the UNFPA, can empower women and spare them poverty and premature death."
No
UNFPA funding in the 2009 Budget!
http://www.sba-list.org/c.ddJBKJNsFqG/b.4179747/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?aid=11798&msource=c4alerts&tr=y&auid=4554913
"The Obama Administration has once again confirmed their support for the
abortion industry by asking Congress for $50 million for the controversial
UNFPA. ... Now Congress wants to undermine Kemp-Kasten so that future pro-life
President will be unable to use this provision to divert funds from the UNFPA
and other international abortion providers. ..."
Track H.R. 1105
At Govtrack.gov
H.R.
1105: Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1105
See the legislation's full text, sponsors, and cosponsors; and easily track
the bill's status.
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