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Letter: Bush had reason for pulling funds

Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002 | 8:45 a.m.

This is in response to three items recently printed in the Sun, decrying the fact that President Bush decided not to give $34 million to the United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA). The authors all go to great lengths to point out how women and children will suffer as a result of this defunding.

What is absent in these items is the real reason why Bush chose to do this. The U.S.-based Population Research Institute detailed forced abortion and contraception abuses in China in congressional hearings earlier this year. Using documentary evidence, including videotaped testimony from Chinese women, PRI showed that such human rights abuses occurred side-by-side with UNFPA programs in several Chinese counties.

But let's take this to a level that anyone can understand; when Bush did this, the European Union immediately offered $34 million to replace it. Bush just saved taxpayers $34 million.

MARIE JONES

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