rd child. Families who have more children than the prescribed limit may also lose health care benefits, food allotment, and job options. Such economic penalties can be psychologically coercive for the poor, and programs that withhold food or increase the cost of raising children punish innocent children for the actions of their parents. For at least 30 years the UNFPA has been a complicit partner in some of the most unspeakably brutal population control programs around the globe, including China's genocidal one-couple, one-child policy. Women and children, at least hundreds of thousands of them have been the victims, of China taking population control to an extreme. To this day no one knows precisely how many babies and women have died at the hands of the population control fanatics in China. Chinese government's birth control policy has already claimed an estimated 5-10 million victims. I say already because this is an ongoing genocide. An estimated 80-90 percent of the victims have been girls. UNFPA still spends millions each year on population control programs in China. Incredibly the members of Congress leading the campaign to restore funding for the UNFPA tend to be "pro-choice". But how can an agency that participates in programs that sterilize women against their will or that tells women they have an ecological responsibility to have only one or at most two children possibly be called pro-choice? Last year the U.S. Senate Committee on Human Rights heard from witnesses of the China population program, who related how rural women are forcibly strapped to steel tables in "hospitals" and their babies aborted, in some cases in the 7th, 8th and 9th months of pregnancy. Woman Representative Maloney believes that population control is necessary to "stop hunger and preserve our world's resources." The question of whether these suggestions would work for out countries is up to the people and our government. Which suggestions a...
