Bush Admin. Scraps Agency's Plans to Back Pro-Abortion Conference

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just one day after a few hundred thousand abortion advocates gathered in the nation's capital, the Bush administration is pulling the plug on a federal agency's plan to support an international conference that is backing abortion.

The Global Health Council, which is organizing the four-day conference, expected to receive support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The "reproductive health" conference features several pro-abortion groups and other political groups that are spending millions to defeat Bush, which led the Bush administration to scrap the funding plans.

"We expect they will be notified officially" today, a senior government official told the Washington Times. "The conference has increasingly moved from a teaching forum to a platform for expressing partisan political views."

Both the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the UNFPA, which has been criticized for backing China's coercive one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations, were heavily involved in the conference.

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