So there’s news of another blatant insult and crime against women all over the world from the Trump administration. What’s new? The latest of these degrading executive decisions comes in the form of a full fund cut-off from the U.S. government to the United Nations Population Fund - an organization dedicated to reproductive health and care of women and people all over the world. 150 countries depend on this fund for healthcare benefits and it is predicted that there will be a loss of $32.5 million in their 2017 budget. The Trump administration says it will not support the UNPF’s alleged aid of forced abortion and sterilization in China, which has a strict two-child policy. To me - it isn’t about whether the UNPF supports these abortions or not - or whether they provided such aid to China -their ultimate goal is about ensuring that, if they are forced, that women have the SAFEST and most affordable healthcare possible anywhere in the world - who knows where they might seek these services or who might provide them - even if they are appointed by the government - if they cannot afford such care from qualified medical aids. So the Trump administration are re-appropriating these funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development - which is entirely too dangerous as the federal executive authority (the Trump administration) has most of the say in what the U.S.A.I.D. does - and the TA says no to women’s healthcare.
In a final statement the UNPF said that these claims were “erroneous” and
that that they “[refute] this claim, as all of its work promotes the human rights of individuals and couples to make their own decision, free of coercion and discrimination.”
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