【英文】美国传统基金会报告：国会必须阻止拜登滥用美国对外援助，将其激进的社会议程强加给世界（26页）

英文研究报告 2022年05月23日 07:55 管理员

Just one week into his term, President Biden issued new policies1 undoing his predecessor’s restrictions on federal funding of abortion services overseas and advancing an unprecedented global pro-abortion campaign even as the abortion debate remains deeply polarizing at home. A recent poll revealed that almost 73 percent of Americans oppose or strongly oppose using taxpayer funding to support abortion services overseas, including 59 percent of those who identify as pro-choice.2 Nevertheless, President Biden revoked his predecessor’s Presidential Memorandum that expanded the 1984 “Mexico City Policy” to prevent the performance or promotion of abortion overseas by any nongovernmental recipient of U.S. taxpayer funds; withdrew the United States from the Geneva Consensus Declaration, supported by a coalition of governments representing 36 countries that reject abortion as an international “right” and oppose the inclusion of abortion in family-planning and women’s health programs;3 waived those restrictions on current as well as future grants; resumed funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund; and dramatically expanded the scope of programs that are now authorized to pay for abortion services.

Biden explicitly and expansively has tied access to taxpayer-funded abortion services internationally to the “United States’ eforts to advance gender equality globally,” “women’s health and programs that prevent and respond to gender-based violence,” and “eforts to confront serious health challenges such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, among others.”The FY 2022 international afairs budget for the U.S. Department of State and USAID that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in July 20217 made history by repealing the Helms Amendment that previously restricted U.S. foreign aid from paying for abortions. As enacted by Congress, the $62.2 billion foreign aid legislation is a 12 percent increase over the previous fscal year and relies upon the U.N. system to carry out the President’s abortion agenda.8 Funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), cut of by the previous Administration, is now $70 million—$14 million more than was requested by President Biden. The White House instructs the UNFPA to “directly support the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in fragile contexts,” meaning the most disempowered communities, most of which view abortion as anathema to their moral codes and religious and cultural traditions.