Because it confuses voluntary contraception and maternal/child health programs with abortion and coerced population control, the US government continues to withhold financial and moral support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
According to UNFPA's own estimate, the funds that the US annually denies
could have helped prevent as many as 2 million unwanted pregnancies and nearly 800,000 abortions; 4,700 maternal deaths and over 77,000 infant and child deaths in many countries... could also have been used to scale up promising maternal health and HIV-prevention efforts.
Never mind UNFPA's impressive record of saving and affirming both already-born and unborn lives, its own policy against abortion advocacy, nor the fact that many nations with antiabortion laws support it...our own current government stubbornly refuses to give it $34 million per year, even as it squanders Iraqi and American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars in the pointless was.
Want to do something about this? If you haven't already, please sign the One Woman Can Petition sponsored by Americans for UNFPA. You don't need to be a woman to sign; you can simply be a real mensch. Thank you.