Congress to restore funding of 'gendercide'?

Congress is preparing to vote on an amendement that would restore U.S. funding for a United Nations agency accused of subsidizing communist China's coercive population control program.

The United Nations Population Fund's activities assist government efforts to force married couples to have only one or two children at most, according to an investigation by the Population Research Institute in 2001 and determinations by the U.S. State Department in 2002 and 2004. Penalties for breaking the law include heavy fines, loss of employment and other sanctions.

China maintains, at least in some areas of the country, a one-child policy sometimes enforced through a policy of forced abortions. It is believed China performs some 10 million involuntary abortions a year.

First exposed by WND in 1997, what has come to be known as "gendercide" in China -- due to a cultural preference for boys -- has resulted in the deaths of at least 50 million girls.

"If UNFPA wants U.S. funding, it must cease aiding human rights abuses in China," said Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, or PRI.

Mosher said the UNFPA subsidizes a "despicable" program of forced contraception, abortion and sterilization that should reform or be abolished, not rewarded.

"So-called pro-choice leaders are revealed for the frauds that they are when they support money for this United Nations agency," he said.

I met Mr. Mosher once after a speech he gave. The commie Chinese are right to fear him.

Currently, a provision of U.S. law called the Kemp-Kasten Amendment directs the federal government to withhold funding from international organizations that assist coercion in population control programs.