African Leaders Ask Congress to Cease Abortion Funding in HIV/AIDS Programs
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Leading African political, religious, and business leaders have asked members of Congress to stop promoting abortion in U.S. foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS.
“As you now seek to reauthorize PEPFAR funding, we want to express our concerns and suspicions that this funding is supporting so-called family planning and reproductive health principles and practices, including abortion, that violate our core beliefs concerning life, family, and religion,” said the Africans in a letter to Congress.
The letter signed by 129 African leaders from 15 countries expressed gratitude to the American people for 20 years of financial assistance to fight the HIV/AIDs epidemic and applauded the “original strategy” that respected “values and focused PEPFAR on protecting and preserving life.” However, they are increasingly alarmed about how the abortion issue has become insinuated into the HIV-AIDS crisis.
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