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This House resolution reaffirms U.S. support for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, which promotes comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights as human rights. The resolution acknowledges significant progress made over the past 30 years, including increased access to contraception and declining maternal mortality, while recognizing persistent challenges such as 218 million women with unmet contraceptive needs and preventable maternal deaths. The resolution condemns what it describes as recent backsliding on reproductive rights and calls for the United States to scale up funding for international family planning programs and contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, which it notes have remained flat-funded for 14 years. It also calls for ending policies the resolution identifies as harmful, including the global gag rule and Helms Amendment, and urges full implementation of the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality. As a House resolution, this measure expresses the sentiment of Congress but does not appropriate funds or establish binding policy by itself.

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