Wed Jun 14, 2023 – 10:20 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Congressman Chris Smith joined prominent American pro-life leaders and African government officials in warning Washington lawmakers that the Biden administration is using the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the nation’s largest foreign aid program, to push its aggressive abortion agenda abroad.
“President Biden has hijacked PEPFAR, the $6-billion-a-year foreign aid program designed to mitigate HIV/AIDs in many targeted — mostly African — countries in order to promote abortion on demand,” Smith wrote in a letter to colleagues in Congress.
“Bad actor nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that promote abortion have received at least $1.34 billion from PEPFAR funds — the lack of transparency by the Administration means it could be more — since FY 2021 and are now poised to carry out Biden’s new strategy directives.”
Detailing instances in which funding from the program has gone to groups that provide abortion and/or lobby against pro-life laws in foreign countries — such as Population Services International (PSI), Village Reach, and Pathfinder International — Smith stated:
“The Biden Administration’s 2022 PEPFAR action plan, ‘Reimagining PEPFAR’s Strategic Direction,’ makes absolutely clear that the new direction of
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