President Biden's administration is facing further accusations of using foreign aid to push African countries to adopt more permissive abortion laws.
President Biden's administration is pressuring the government of Sierra Leone to adopt more permissive abortion policies in exchange for foreign assistance, according to a Monday report. The African nation currently bans abortion in most circumstances, but legislation before the country's parliament would decriminalize the practice. The Millennium Challenge Corporation , a U.S.
, the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was launched in 2003 under President George W. Bush and has invested over $100 billion fighting AIDS across the world while saving 25 million lives and preventing millions of infections, the State Department says. , 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 told colleagues in a 2023 statement. Smith said two groups, Population Services International and Village Reach, have received $96.5 million and $10.1 million, respectively, over the last few years from
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