Bush Administration Pulls Plug on Financing of; Pro-Abortion Global Health Council Conference.

The Department of Health and Human Services has officially decided to withhold funding from an upcoming June conference which features a number of speakers from pro-abortion organizations and the "fiercely anti-Bush Moveon.Org." Sponsored by the Global Health Council, the June 1-June 4 conference on global health and reproductive rights "will likely promote policies contrary to the president's," according to the publication, The Hill.

Among the presenters at "Youth and Health: Generation on the Edge" are advocates from such abortion-promoting organizations as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the United Nations International Family Planning Fund (UNFPA) as well as the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI).

AGI is the "special research affiliate" of Planned Parenthood. The Hill reported that on the first day of the conference there would be "a two-hour reception showcasing the Alan Guttmacher Institute's latest research."

That same day, there will be a five-hour meeting "to address the issue of unsafe abortions." As explained in a multi-part series in National Right to Life News, this is a vaguely defined, unscientifically arrived at notion that is used to attack protective abortion laws on the grounds that such laws are "causing" unsafe illegal abortions. In 2002 the Bush Administration declared UNFPA ineligible to receive government population control funding. At the time of the announcement, NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said, "The UNFPA is a cheerleader and facilitator for China's birth-quota program, which relies heavily on coerced abortion." Johnson added, "Top UNFPA officials have been completely cozy with China's birth-quota bosses. For 20 years, top UNFPA leaders have consistently praised China's program and attacked its critics."

IPPF refused to sign President Bush's Mexico City Policy. The policy requires that in order to be eligible under the U.S. program ...