U.S. withdraws funding for U.N. Population Fund

[Odoreida]

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Source: Reuters via Yahoo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The State Department said on Monday it was ending U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, the international body's agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.

In a letter to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, the State Department said it was dropping the funding because the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) "supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization."

The cut marks U.S. President Donald Trump's first move to curtail funding for the United Nations and is likely to raise further questions about how deep those cuts will eventually go throughout the organization, where the United States is the top donor.


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[Phoenix61]

1. Evil, just pure evil

and stupid, really, really stupid. Evil, stupid @%&*#* man-boy.

[beam me up scottie]

2. "The support we received over the years ... has saved tens of thousands of mothers..."

"The support we received over the years from the government and people of the United States has saved tens of thousands of mothers from preventable deaths and disabilities, and especially now in the rapidly developing global humanitarian crises," the statement said.

Forced birthers don't care about women and children - they only care about fetuses.

[UpInArms]

3. It shows their total loathing

Of women and children

They truly are despicables.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Indeed. Who's going to care for the orphans this creates?

[DK504]

5. All they care about are the unborn, except if they happen to be brown.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Unfortunately this will disproportionately affect women of colour.

[barbtries]

7. they don't care about the fetuses either.

what they care about is very narrow and limited. to themselves, their enrichment, their power. not other people. not the planet. not fetuses.

[beam me up scottie]

10. I've met some who actually believe pregnancy and childbirth is an

appropriate punishment for women who can't "keep their legs together". I'm not kidding - that's the phrase they use. It's disturbingly puritanical.

They don't want women to have access to birth control or abortion and they want to force us to give birth when we get pregnant because in their minds if we can't abstain we might as well be incubators for God.

[iluvtennis]

12. +++ agree

[mr_lebowski]

4. Do yourself a favor and don't read comments ...

Not a single progressive has posted there, apparently.

Either the Russian bots are working overtime to post, progressives don't do yahoo, yahoo is deleting messages that are against this move, or simply a huge majority of people are fucking morons. Or some combination of the above.

These dipshits have apparently never heard of the concept of 'an ounce of prevention ...'

[barbtries]

6. this is so bad.

they'll make them starve, they will not give them refuge from terrorism and war, but they'll make them have babies. I know it, but it still tends to astound me when they reveal just how vile they are.

[MBS]

11. A profoundly stupid and disgraceful move

. . for all the reasons that have been articulated upthread.

[JudyM]

13. Locking

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