People-planners say U.S. forcing service cuts
NZPA-Reuter London The world’s biggest independent family planning organisation said yesterday that it was being forced to drastically cut services in the Third World because of the Reagan Administration’s policy on abortion. The International Planned Parenthood Federation said that it was slashing its SUSSS million ($ll3 million) budget 30 per cent. It blamed the Administration for the cut. Washington has said that it will no longer fund organisations that perform or prtfriote abortions and is threatening
to withdraw its SUSI 7 million ($35 million) grant to Planned Parenthood. Frances Dennis, LP.P.F.’s information director, said, “Ironically enough, with the cut-backs, there will be an increase in the numbers of women resorting to abortions.” Planned Parenthood had decided at a private meeting of its donor countries last week to put the emer- ,, gency budget into force because American officials at the meeting had been unable to confirm whether funds would be available next year. Ms Dennis said that
I.P.P.F. would be forced to close many field clinics and cut grants to local family planning groups SUS 7 million ($14.5 million), almost a quarter of previous levels. A Reagan Administration policy paper said that Washington would no longer contribute to private organisations that performed or actively promoted abortions. The paper caused controversy at a United Nations conference on population in Mexico City in August. Most of Planned Parenthood’s services are devoted to fajnily planning methods othejf than abortion. Only
one-quarter of 1 per cent of its budget is spent on abor-tion-related services. Ms Dennis said that there would be no change in the federation’s policies and that it would not drop its abortion-related work. She said, “What is really at stake is a principle of independence to allow coun- ’ tries to decide their own family planning programmes,” she said. I.P.P.F. would continue negotiating with the United States, the biggest and one of the longest-standing supporters of the federation, to see ifjhe impasse could be ovengne. $
People-planners say U.S. forcing service cuts
Press, 5 December 1984, Page 10
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