Millions of families and generations of women were subject to “barbaric forced abortions and involuntary sterilization”, it says. “Where is their justice? UNFPA’s silence on the health and well-being of those women suffering still today is deafening.”

The statement announced that the administration had no other choice but to apply the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. That law requires the executive branch to withhold federal funding to agencies or programs that involve coercive population control.

Even though the one-child policy was abolished a decade ago, China still has an active population control regime managed by a powerful bureaucracy that does not leave spouses free to decide on the number and spacing of their children. China’s policy currently allows families to have a maximum of three children, up from a single child under the one-child policy.

The U.S. statement further questioned why the agency is still providing foreign assistance to China at all. “We urge the Executive Board to ask why UNFPA still subsidizes technical assistance for a country with the second largest economy in the world,” it says.

While everyone expected a defunding announcement from the Trump administration, it still caught the agency heads off guard.

The executive director of UNFPA, Natalia Kanem, was quick to dismiss the accusations of the U.S. government….

Continue reading entire article at C-Fam.

Editor’s Note: Stefano Gennarini writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.”

The statement announced that the administration had no other choice but to apply the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. That law requires the executive branch to withhold federal funding to agencies or programs that involve coercive population control.

Even though the one-child policy was abolished a decade ago, China still has an active population control regime managed by a powerful bureaucracy that does not leave spouses free to decide on the number and spacing of their children. China’s policy currently allows families to have a maximum of three children, up from a single child under the one-child policy.

The U.S. statement further questioned why the agency is still providing foreign assistance to China at all. “We urge the Executive Board to ask why UNFPA still subsidizes technical assistance for a country with the second largest economy in the world,” it says.

While everyone expected a defunding announcement from the Trump administration, it still caught the agency heads off guard.

The executive director of UNFPA, Natalia Kanem, was quick to dismiss the accusations of the U.S. government….

Continue reading entire article at C-Fam.

Editor’s Note: Stefano Gennarini writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.”