House Votes to Fund
U.N. but Not Population Fund
Stephen Mbogo,
CNSNews.com
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
In
a close vote Tuesday, the House of Representatives blocked funding
for the U.N. Population Fund and restored an 18-year-old human
rights provision that prevents the United States from aiding
organizations involved in coercive abortion.
The 216-211 vote strips a State Department authorization bill of
an amendment added in May that reversed a policy by the Bush
administration to withhold funding from the UNFPA.
Pro-life congressmen warned about the dangers of undoing the
18-year-old Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which the U.S. State Department
has cited in its critique of UNFPA's operations in China. By
supporting China's one-child policy, UNFPA was in conflict with U.S.
law, the State Department found last July.
Tuesday's vote blocks $50 million in funding that was earmarked
for the UNFPA by Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., who sponsored the
amendment that narrowly passed the International Relations Committee
in May.
House Rejects Measure to Stop Funding U.N.
Also Tuesday, the House overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to
end U.S. contributions to the United Nations and its affiliated
agencies.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, offered the measure as an amendment to
H.R. 1950, the bill to authorize appropriations for the State
Department for the next two fiscal years.
The amendment failed by a vote of 74 to 350, with only two
Democrats supporting it.
Paul recently sponsored the American Sovereignty Restoration Act
(H.R. 1146) to end U.S. membership in the United Nations.
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