Washington Post Gets PEPFAR Abortion Story Wrong
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A recent article in the Washington Post discussed how abortion has roiled the U.S. government’s international HIV/AIDS program. Missing from the story is an any reckoning with the way that abortion has infiltrated an ever-growing list of international policy areas, including the fight against HIV, and why Republicans say new protections are needed.
The head of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), John Nkengasong, recently insisted that the program has never been, and will never be, used to promote abortion. If this is the case then the addition of legal provisions ensuring that remains the case should not be controversial. At worst, such language would be redundant.
However, it is clear that the PEPFAR program has funneled U.S. dollars to groups that promote abortion. This was totally missing from the Washington Post story.
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