Endangered: U.S. Aid for Family Planning Overseas

Endangered: U.S. Aid for Family Planning Overseas

Published Jan 1999

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In the wake of groundbreaking international accords calling for greater political and financial attention to population and development issues, the United States is failing to fulfill its commitments. During the last two years, ultraconservatives in Congress have doggedly attacked U.S. participation in the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and have made U.S.-aided family planning programs a favorite target of their hostility. Cleverly using the divisive issue of abortion, they have attacked family planning efforts as promoting abortion by encouraging promiscuity, sabotaging parental authority and threatening family life.

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