About the bill
The bill has attracted more than 100 Democratic cosponsors, but no Republicans.
Context: what is UNFPA?
The United Nations Population Fund is the UN’s main agency dealing with sexual and reproductive health issues worldwide.
(Oddly, the agency still maintains the acronym UNFPA, based on its original name from 1969–87: the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.)
UNFPA doesn’t explicitly promote or endorse abortion, working within each individual country’s political framework as it operates globally, rather than explicitly advocating policy change. Instead, its stated goal is to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies entirely, by increasing family planning medication access and education.
Yet while it condemns unsafe, coercive, or sex-selective abortions specifically, UNFPA doesn’t condemn abortion as a general practice — the apparent implication being that the agency believes …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Jun 15, 2023
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117 Cosponsors (117 Democrats)
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Oct 17, 2019
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Jun 16, 2021
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Jun 15, 2023
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H.R. 4166 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 4166. This is the one from the 118th Congress.
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