I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 361
To provide for international family planning funding for the fiscal year 2002,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 31, 2001
Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself and Mr. GREENWOOD) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International
Relations
A BILL
To provide for international family planning funding for the
fiscal year 2002, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Saving Women’s Lives
through International Family Planning Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) International family planning funds provide
assistance that saves the lives of women by providing
vital reproductive health care, including family plan-
ning and maternal health programs which include
prenatal, postpartum, HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted disease education that results in safe
pregnancies and safe motherhood.
(2) Each year more than 585,000 women die
from complications with pregnancy and childbirth.
In addition, each year at least 7,000,000 women suf-
fer serious health problems and as many as
50,000,000 women suffer some adverse health con-
sequences after childbirth, many of which could be
prevented with safe motherhood practices used in re-
productive health programs.
(3) More than 5,800,000 people were infected
with HIV/AIDS in 1998. Without funding from
international family planning programs for edu-
cation and prevention, most governments would not
have the resources to combat the physical, social,
and economic devastation inflicted by this disease.
(4) The health of the planet is connected to the
health of women and their families. Rapid popu-
lation growth exacerbates many environmental prob-
lems, including air and water pollution, loss of wild-
life 
habitat, 
fisheries 
depletion, 
and 
climate
change—global problems that transcend national
boundaries. Family planning programs give women
the option to choose the number and spacing of their
children, which contributes to slowing global popu-
lation growth. International family planning im-
proves the ability of families worldwide to manage
their lives and their natural resources more
sustainably.
(5) When families have access to family plan-
ning resources and are able to space their children,
delay the timing of their first child, and have longer
intervals between each child, there is a decrease in
the risk of mortality in both women and children.
(6) Voluntary family planning services allow
women and men to exercise their fundamental
human right to plan the size of their families and
ensure that every pregnancy is planned and every
child is wanted. Data from around the world pro-
vides conclusive evidence that increased access to
family planning reduces the incidence of abortion.
(7) At the International Conference on Popu-
lation and Development in 1994, it was estimated
that making quality family planning and related
health services available to all in need of such plan-
ning and services would cost $17,000,000,000 in the
year 2000. The United States and other donor coun-
tries agreed to provide one-third of these funds.
Based on the size of its economy, the United States
share of the total donor population assistance should
be almost $1,900,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.
While short of this funding goal, restoring funding
for population assistance to fiscal year 1995 levels
would be a significant step toward ensuring access
to family planning and reproductive health care for
couples around the world.
(8) 
With 
world 
population 
exceeding
6,000,000,000 people, international family planning
providers and related nongovernmental organizations
play a critical role in meeting the physical, social,
environmental, and economic needs in their societies
and in expanding participation in the democratic
process. These organizations should be provided with
adequate funding to fully and actively offer the best
and most informative care to their citizens without
restrictions on free speech. United States assistance
to these organizations should be provided under the
same terms as to their governments.
SEC. 3. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS.
There is authorized to be appropriated, and there is
appropriated (out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated), for fiscal year 2002 $366,000,000 to
carry out the provisions of section 301 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 and section 2 of the United Nations
Environment Program Participation Act of 1973.
SEC. 4. POPULATION PLANNING ASSISTANCE.
(a) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated, and there is appropriated (out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), for fiscal year
2002 $541,600,000 for population planning activities and
other population assistance under part I of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961.
(b) ELIGIBILITY OF NONGOVERNMENTAL AND MUL-
TILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR POPULATION PLANNING
ASSISTANCE.—Chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 135. ELIGIBILITY OF NONGOVERNMENTAL AND MUL-
TILATERAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 
FOR 
POPU-
LATION PLANNING ASSISTANCE.
‘‘In determining eligibility of nongovernmental and
multilateral organizations for population planning assist-
ance or other population assistance under this part, the
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development may not apply requirements to such
organizations that are more restrictive than requirements
applicable to foreign governments for such assistance.’’.
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