United Nations Population Fund Women's Health and Dignity Act

To provide financial and other support to the United Nations Population Fund to carry out activities to save women's lives, limit the incidence of abortion and maternal mortality associated with unsafe abortion, promote universal access to safe and reliable family planning, and assist women, children, and men in developing countries to live better lives.

6/7/2007--Introduced.
United Nations Population Fund Women's Health and Dignity Act - Authorizes the President to make a voluntary contribution on a grant basis to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to:
(1) provide and distribute equipment, medicine, supplies, and expertise to ensure safe childbirth and emergency obstetric care;
(2) make contraceptives available for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS;
(3) reduce abortion and related maternal mortality;
(4) reduce and eliminate coercive family planning practices;
(5) reduce and eliminate sex selection;
(6) prevent and treat cases of obstetric fistula;
(7) promote abandonment of harmful traditional practices, including female genital cutting and child marriage;
(8) reestablish maternal health services in areas where medical infrastructure has been destroyed by natural disasters; and
(9) promote the access of unaccompanied women and other vulnerable people to vital services, including access to water, sanitation facilities, food, and health care, in emergency situations.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7]
• and 39 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D, WI-2]
  • Rep. Howard Berman [D, CA-28]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. Russ Carnahan [D, MO-3]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Susan Davis [D, CA-53]
  • Rep. William Delahunt [D, MA-10]
  • Rep. Eliot Engel [D, NY-17]
  • Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
  • Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]
  • Rep. Steve Israel [D, NY-2]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D, NY-14]
  • Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D, NY-4]
  • Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4]
  • Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Michael McNulty [D, NY-21]
  • Rep. Michael Michaud [D, ME-2]
  • Rep. Dennis Moore [D, KS-3]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. Eleanor Norton [D, DC-0]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Charles Rangel [D, NY-15]
  • Rep. Steven Rothman [D, NJ-9]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
  • Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D, NH-1]
  • Rep. Adam Smith [D, WA-9]
  • Rep. Hilda Solis [D, CA-32]
  • Rep. Fortney Stark [D, CA-13]
  • Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
  • Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30]
  • Rep. Robert Wexler [D, FL-19]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
  • Rep. Albert Wynn [D, MD-4]
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Committees

• House Foreign Affairs

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• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
• Introduced on Jun 07, 2007.

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• Contraceptives
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• Female circumcision
• Food
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