Dec 11, 2008 / 04:13 am
Following the Huffington Post’s recent attack on the Population Research Institute (PRI) for opposing policies of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), PRI challenged its critics to examine its evidence linking the organization with coercive population control programs in China.
Cristina Page, writing in a December 2 essay at the Huffington Post, claimed that the PRI was coordinating the “heckling of humanitarian relief efforts” conducted by the UNFPA. Page claimed that “UNFPA was working with the Chinese government to prove that voluntary family planning would lead to better outcomes for Chinese citizens as well as the Chinese government.”
She claimed that the UNFPA was actually persuading the Chinese government to relax its “coercive and brutal one-child policy.”
“Bush, eager to lock lips with his fanatical base, ignored the advice of his own state department, as well as many allied nations, and opted to go with the swirly eyed lunacy of the six staffers of PRI,” Page charged. “At their request, Bush quickly froze all U.S. funds to UNFPA, which represented 12 percent of its budget.”