Under Obama Billions in Foreign Aid Has Gone to Groups that Support Abortion
Lawmakers in Washington are attempting to rebalance U.S. spending on foreign aid which has for years limited funding for maternal and child health and increased spending for groups promoting population reduction and abortion.
The U.S. budget for family planning and reproductive health has increased some 57% since 2006 when Democrats took control in Congress, yet funding for maternal and child health has increased just 16% overall and its funding has dropped 4% within U.S. Agency for Development (USAID). Globally, nations spend $7 billion a year on family planning, based in part by aggressive lobbying by activists who claim that 222 million women suffer from an “unmet need” for contraception globally, a term which development experts have rejected as unsubstantiated....