US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s tenacity in gutting funding for human rights – particularly sexual and reproductive rights – has been impressive, even by Trump administration standards. He’s distinguished himself by going after even the smallest agencies that so much as whisper the word abortion.
While the recent massive $32.5 million cut to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was expected, it came on the heels of the US slashing its contributions to a lesser-known international agency earlier this year – the Organization of American States (OAS), cutting its budget by $210,000.
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency; it supports contraception and family planning around the world. Pompeo reduced US funding for the OAS, which is a multilateral political body like the African Union, saying it was “advancing the pro-abortion cause”.
