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U.S. Legislation and Policies
Be an informed advocate. Learn about legislation and policies affecting global population.
 Current Legislation and Policy
- The Population Institute Supports the Global Democracy Promotion Act (H.R. 619)
The Population Institute supports the Global Democracy Promotion Act (H.R. 619), introduced on January 22, 2007 by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) as an attempt to end the injustice perpetrated on foreign non-governmental organizations in the form of the Mexico City Policy, also called the Global Gag Rule.
[updated 08/13/2007]
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- Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Foreign Aid Spending Bill with Increased Bilateral Funding and Reduced Restrictions
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations approved an FY08 budget on Thursday afternoon, June 28th that would fund international family planning programs at $461 million – $20 million more than the House passed level – and includes key House passed provisions strengthening U.S. foreign assistance for family planning.
[updated 08/13/2007]
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- The Population Institute Supports the Focus on Family Health Worldwide Act (H.R.1225)
Addressing unmet need starts with increased political and financial investment in voluntary family planning programs. By supporting H.R.1225, which significantly increases funding for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) international family planning programs, the U.S. can promote maternal health and child survival, alleviate poverty, hunger and disease, and ease the pressure of rapid population growth on the global environment.
[updated 07/19/2007]
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- Population Institute Celebrates House Vote to Ease Restrictions on Population Assistance Programs
The Population Institute Celebrates Hard-Fought Victory
[updated 07/19/2007]
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- The Population Institute Supports H.R. 2367, Ensuring Access to Contraceptives Act of 2007
Ensuring Access to Contraceptives Act of 2007 (H.R. 2367), led by Representative Russ Carnahan (D-MO), and supported by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, exempts international nongovernmental family planning providers from Global Gag Rule restrictions on USAID-provided contraceptives and condoms. The bill also authorizes increased funding for these commodities from $75 million today to $150 million annually for fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2009.
[updated 06/28/2007]
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- House Appropriations Committee Passes FY2008 Funding Bill That Reduces Restrictions On Contraceptives
House Appropriations Committee Passes FY2008 Funding Bill That Reduces Restrictions On Contraceptives
[updated 06/14/2007]
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- PI Supports the Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth (PATHWAY) Act of 2007, H.R. 1713
The Population Institute supports the Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth (PATHWAY) Act (HR1713), bipartisan legislation reintroduced by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Congressman Chris Shays (R-CT) that would require the President to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection in developing countries. The Act also strikes the thirty-three percent earmark for “abstinence-until-marriage” programs funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
[updated 06/06/2007]
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- The Population Institute Supports the Global Poverty Act of 2007 (H.R. 1302)
The Population Institute supports the bipartisan Global Poverty Act of 2007 (H.R.1302) as a first step in meeting our goals to alleviate poverty. The Poverty Act, introduced March 1, 2007 by Reps. Smith (D-WA) and Bachus (R-AL), requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to promote the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme global poverty in half by 2015.
[updated 04/05/2007]
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- Testimony of Lawrence Smith, Jr., Ph.D
The world’s population today is some 6.6 billion, 5.4 billion of which live in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. By the middle of this century, another 2.5 billion, the equivalent of the current combined populations of China and India, are projected to be added to our human numbers. Virtually all of this growth — approximately 99 per cent—is expected to be added to the world’s less developed countries, where life for all too many today is a daily struggle for survival. This testimony focuses on three areas: security, environmnet, poverty.
[updated 04/05/2007]
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- The House Passes FY2007 Continuing Resolution
The U.S. House of Representatives sets funding for bilateral family planning and reproductive health programs at $435.6 million, slightly lower than the FY2006 levels of $440 million. The resolution includes an additional $33.6 million for the U.S. contribution for the UNFPA. Both numbers fall far below what is required to meet unmet need for voluntary family planning services.
[updated 03/30/2007]
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- Statement Marking International Women’s Day 2007
International Women’s Day is a day to renew our pledge to advancing women’s empowerment – the right to education, the right to employment and the right to plan and care for healthy families – as part of the population agenda.
[updated 03/07/2007]
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- President FY2008 Budget Propsal Slashes Voluntary International Family Planning Funding
On February 5, President Bush submitted the Administration’s FY2008 budget request to Congress. The proposal seeks funding for bilateral family planning programs at $324.8 million, an approximately 25 percent or $111 million cut, from the amount appropriated in the House-passed FY2007 Continuing Resolution. The President requests $25 million for the U.S. contribution to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a reduction of $9 million from the amount appropriated in the House-passed FY2007 Continuing Resolution.
[updated 02/15/2007]
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- Statement on Maternal Mortality by Senator Durbin
“Every minute, a woman in the developing world dies from treatable complications of pregnancy or childbirth. That is a terrible tragedy. But the fact that politics are making this tragedy worse is an abomination.” --Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
[updated 01/05/2007]
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- Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives on International Family Planning
Testimony of Lawrence Smith, Jr., Ph.D, President of the Population Institute
[updated 10/26/2006]
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- High Level meeting of the United Nations on AIDS
Political Declaration encouraging, but fails to set concrete commitments
[updated 10/26/2006]
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- Family planning and HIV/AIDS services integration a prominent theme at AIDS conference in Toronto
The Population Institute joins with its partners in Toronto and calls for a comprehensive AIDS policy that celebrates the synergies between family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
[updated 10/26/2006]
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- U.S. House of Representatives, Letter Urging Increased Support for bilateral International Family Planning
The Population Institute was pleased to support an initiative by Reps. Slaughter, Biggert, Michaud and Shays calling for increased funding for life saving family planning programs. A total of 113 members of Congress have urged leaders of the
[updated 10/26/2006]
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- PI Laments US Decision to Withhold UNFPA Funding
President Bush’s decision to once again withhold $34 million appropriated by Congress for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) forfeits yet another opportunity for the United States to regain its leadership in providing population and family planning assistance to the world’s poorest people. For the fifth straight year, the President has placed political maneuvering above the health of millions of women and children in the developing world.
[updated 10/26/2006]
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The Public Policy Program uses education and advocacy to make population and voluntary family planning a priority in U.S. foreign policy. For more information please contact Maurice Williams .
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