The Bush administration is scrapping plans to sponsor a major global health and reproductive rights conference that features liberal advocacy groups, including several pro-choice organizations and MoveOn.org, which is spending millions of dollars on negative ads to defeat President Bush. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will withdraw its support today, according to a senior government official.
"We expect they will be notified officially" today, a senior government official said of USAID's decision to withdraw from the June gathering in Washington.
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News of the funding angered many on Capitol Hill, especially conservatives who don't think the government should help promote pro-choice groups such as the International Planned Parenthood Organization and the U.N. International Family Planning Fund. Both groups, along with the fiercely anti-Bush MoveOn.org, will participate in the conference.
"The conference has increasingly moved from a teaching forum to a platform for expressing partisan political views, and that's evidenced by the inclusion of the political organization MoveOn.org," a senior government official said.
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