The Trump administration will withhold funds from the UN agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo authorized the move to cut $32.5 million in funding to the agency for its core operations addressing maternal death, female genital mutilation, child marriage and gender-based violence and meeting family planning needs. Pompeo's decision also denies the UN Population Fund, known as
, especially when vital, life-saving work is at risk," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat who sits on the foreign relations committee. The "continues to indicate in its public country program documents that it partners on family planning with the Chinese government agency responsible for these coercive policies. The Secretary has determined that
would welcome a visit from a Trump administration to see the China program, she said. She added that the funding decision, and the charge that programs. The UN agency works in 150 countries worldwide,"often where the US Agency for International Development does not operate family planning/reproductive health programs," they said. Seema Jalan, executive director of the Universal Access Project, said that
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