05/24/2026
At a recent hearing on State Department funding, Democrats were extremely angry at not getting their way on funding for abortion and gender ideology.
This is “forced birth followed by neglect. That is not pro-life. That is policy-induced suffering, and we are already seeing the consequences,” said Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-FL) the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee that drafted the 2027 foreign aid bill.
The foreign aid bill under debate provides $47 billion in funding for U.S. foreign operations. And it safeguards the Mexico City Policy prohibitions on U.S. money supporting abortion overseas. Frankel falsely claimed the policy, “means more women and girls will die because they are not able to access the services they need,” and that in response, “we are forcing women and girls into pregnancies they are not ready for and then turning our backs as their babies suffer and die.”
Frankel’s dissent to the pro-life guardrails was joined by a choir of her female colleagues, including calls for a reinstatement of funding to the controversial UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been complicit in forced abortions overseas.
“This bill prohibits UNFPA because you do not support family planning services; you cut off the efforts,” said Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, the purple-haired ranking Democrat for the House Appropriations Committee. Republican drafters reduced family planning funding to $461 million—a 20% reduction. DeLauro said the cut in funding would cause “15-year-olds who, in some instances, are forced to deliver a child.”
DeLauro defended UNFPA’s maternal health programs, including reproductive health kits that include manual vacuum aspirators used for miscarriages and abortions in refugee tents, and abortion pills. UNFPA’s abortion activities make it ineligib
Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) proposed an amendment to overturn President Trump’s Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Rule, restore funding levels for family planning, and reinstate funding for the UNFPA.
The amendment failed by a vote of 24-31.
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