The officials of the American Agency for International Development (AID) have announced that AID will not renew its funding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation because the latter finances abortion-related services in 119 nations.
Last year, Planned Parenthood received $14 million from AID and this year was expecting about $17 million.
The announcement implements the policy statement of the U.S government, given at the International Conference on Population in Mexico City last August. Part of the statement says: “…The United States will no longer contribute to separate, non-governmental organizations which perform or actively promote abortion as method of family planning in other nations.”
Dr. John C. Willke, president of National Right to Life Committee says that Planned Parenthood “have led successful political campaigns to legalize abortion in various Third World countries and have aggressively promoted abortion as a means of birth control, even in countries in which abortion is illegal.”
Planned Parenthood’s total budget for 1984 was $52 million.
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