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By John Francis Borra

This twelve-term US House member from New York’s 28th Congressional District is, to put it frankly, a raving abortion pusher. She legislates abortion, she funds abortion, she promotes abortion—all with our money, of course. And her name is Slaughter. Louise M. Slaughter.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Steve Ertelt, http://www.lifenews.com editor, reported this on March 18th:

In a letter to the chairman and ranking members of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Slaughter and three other members of the House ask for an increase of $530 million for family planning efforts and a boost to $65 million for the [anti-life] UNFPA.

“We respectfully request that you increase international family planning assistance funding by $530 million from last year’s level, including a total of $65 million for the United Nations Population Fund in the Fiscal Year 2010 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act,” the letter says.

Obama won’t likely budget as he demonstrated his commitment to funding the controversial pro-abortion UN agency when he overturned the Mexico City Policy during his first week in office.

“I look forward to working with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the U.N. Population Fund,” Obama said in his executive order message in January.“By resuming funding to UNFPA, the U.S. will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries,” he added.

However, President Obama ignored the connection between the UNFPA and the Chinese forced-abortion program.

Following [a State Department] investigation, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had no doubt that the UNFPA was complicit in the population control program.

“I determined that UNFPA’s support of, and involvement in, China’s population-planning activities allowed the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion,” he wrote.

The State Department investigation came after a groundbreaking probe led by the Population Research Institute.

Colin Mason, PRI’s media director, confirmed to LifeNews.com last November that it stands by its probe showing the UNFPA involved in the program.

“Our investigation remains valid,” Mason said. “We put boots on the ground, and made the results available to anyone who wanted them. Those who would disregard our findings show an appalling lack of respect for human rights.”

PRI’s initial report, entitled “UNFPA, China, and Coercive Family Planning,” is based on an investigation conducted by PRI researchers in China’s Sihui County.

Relying on interviews with over two dozen victims and witnesses, the 2001 investigation found that coercive abortion and sterilization practices were taking place where the UNFPA had supposedly instituted a “client-centered and voluntary family planning program.”

In fact, PRI’s investigation discovered that the UNFPA shared an office with the very Chinese family planning officials who were carrying out forced abortions.

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Read Steve’s full story at http://www.lifenews.com/int1130.html

Visit Population Research Institute at http://www.pop.org/

See PRI’s video on UNFPA at http://www.youtube.com/colinpri

By the way, Louise Slaughter describes herself as a “leading advocate for women’s rights” who, according to her on-line biography, “co-authored the historic Violence Against Women Act.”

Evidently, Louise Slaughter believes women have a right not only to violence, but to coercion, as well.

Read more at John Francis Borra’s blog, Veritatis: The Cartoon, at http://veritatisthecartoon.blogspot.com/