the United States, at the 1994 International Con-
ference for Population and Development. The prin-
ciples include that ‘‘reproductive health care pro-
grams should provide the widest range of services 
without any form of coercion. All couples and indi-
viduals have the basic right to decide freely and re-
sponsibly the number and spacing of their children 
and to have the information, education and means to 
do so.’’ 
(5) UNFPA is currently working to address the 
needs of: 
(A) The 810 women and adolescent girls 
who die each day from preventable causes re-
lated to pregnancy and childbirth, 99 percent of 
which deaths occur in developing countries and 
more than half of which occur in fragile and 
humanitarian settings. 
(B) More than 214,000,000 women of re-
productive age in developing regions who want 
to avoid pregnancy and are not using a modern 
contraceptive method. 
(C) The estimated 1 in 3 women who expe-
rience gender-based violence. 
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(D) The estimated 200,000,000 women 
who have survived some form of female genital 
mutilation. 
(E) The estimated 15,000,000 girls who 
are forcibly married before the age of 18 each 
year. 
(6) Prior to withholding contributions in 2017, 
the United States was the third-largest overall donor 
to UNFPA, and its second-largest donor for human-
itarian response. 
(7) UNFPA, which works in three times as 
many countries as the United States Agency for 
International Development, extends the impact of 
United States foreign assistance by reaching people 
in politically unstable regions. UNFPA also plays a 
pivotal role in meeting protection and health care 
needs in countries experiencing humanitarian emer-
gencies like Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. 
(8) Voluntary family planning is central to gen-
der equality and women’s empowerment, and it is a 
key factor in reducing poverty. 
(9) The United States has conflated UNFPA’s 
presence in China with supporting China’s coercive 
birth limitation policies. However, in June 2015, the 
U.S. State Department visited UNFPA’s China 
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Country Program to design and approve it as a 
member of UNFPA’s Executive Board, noting that 
‘‘[d]uring its recent visit, the U.S. delegation ob-
served the positive impact of UNFPA’s rights-based 
programming in China. We commend the Fund’s ad-
herence to demonstrating the advantages of a vol-
untary approach to family planning.’’ The Program 
in China has not changed since it was approved by 
the United States in 2015. 
(10) On July 8, 2019, the Department of State 
made a determination to eliminate all contributions 
to UNFPA for the third consecutive year based on 
its interpretation of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment 
(first enacted in Public Law 99–88; 99 Stat. 323). 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States as follows: 
(1) Improving the status of women around the 
world is a critical component of the United States 
foreign policy and development strategies. 
(2) The right of every person to determine free-
ly whether, when, and with whom to have children, 
and to attain the highest standard of sexual and re-
productive health, is a basic human right. 
(3) Access to voluntary contraception and re-
productive health care is necessary to improving the 
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status of women and ensuring this basic human 
right. 
(4) UNFPA is a key partner in improving the 
status of women and expanding access to voluntary 
family planning and reproductive health care serv-
ices throughout the world. 
(5) UNFPA helps ensure that family planning 
and reproductive health programs are voluntary and 
centered on protecting human rights. 
(6) Financial support for UNFPA is a crucial 
part of the United States commitment to global 
health, development, and human rights, and the 
Government of the United States is committed to 
providing 
core 
and 
humanitarian 
funding 
to 
UNFPA. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated an annual 
contribution for each of the five fiscal years beginning 
after the date of the enactment of this Act to support the 
core functions and programs of the United Nations Popu-
lation Fund (UNFPA), which may include the following: 
(1) Ending preventable maternal deaths. 
(2) Ending the unmet need for contraceptives 
and promoting a human-rights-based approach to 
family planning. 
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(3) Ending gender-based violence. 
(4) Ending other harmful practices, such as 
child marriage and female genital mutilation. 
(5) Supporting United States national security 
and humanitarian efforts by operating in areas 
where medical infrastructure or services have been 
destroyed or limited by natural disasters, armed con-
flict, or other humanitarian emergencies. 
Æ 
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