Why Should American Taxpayers Be on the Hook for Family Planning in Other Countries?

The Trump administration's goal to try to save the American taxpayer a few bucks has, amazingly, encountered resistance at every turn. One of the more baffling parts of this is the insistence that American taxpayers should continue playing Santa Claus to the world, sending billions of America's hard-earned to every corner of the globe for... some reason or another.

In an example of this, on Saturday The Hill put out a piece complaining that mean old President Trump won't allow the taxpayer's money to continue to flow endlessly to pay for family planning everywhere on the planet.

The Trump administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid has impacted family planning resources used by hundreds of thousands of women, girls and couples abroad, causing a number of health clinics to shut down and hindering the supply chain for contraception.
In the first week after President Trump signed the executive order directing the pause on his first day in office, it caused more than 912,000 women and girls to be denied family planning care throughout the dozens of countries that receive U.S. aid, according to one analysis from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research group.
That analysis also projected that at least 8,340 pregnant people would die as a result of the pause by the end of the 90-day period in April.

While predictions are hard to make, especially about the future, we can make one about that last sentence and predict that that "8,340 pregnant people" - those would be women, by the way - won't die by the end of the 90-day period, at which time most people will have forgotten this 90-decibel whine. This is the purest of corral litter, suitable only for enriching lawns.

But here's the real howler.

Zambia, for example, receives a large amount of aid funds from the U.S. In 2023, the U.S. sent nearly $600 million in aid to the country, $10 million of which was used for family planning purposes, according to a federal data breakdown from the Guttmacher Institute shared with The Hill.
Now, piles of U.S-provided condoms are lying in warehouses unused, causing shortages in clinics around the country, according to Rachel Moynihan, an advocacy and communications specialist at the United Nations Population Fund. The Zambian government has stepped up and made a twentyfold increase in their own commitment to family planning products to help fill the gap from U.S. supplies. But in many other countries receiving aid, the gap left by the freeze remains unfilled.

The proper reply to that is, "And therefore, what?"

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The legacy media loves spinning these heart-rending tales of how many people in third-world world manure-holes will die if the American taxpayers don't continue to endlessly prop them up. But nobody, at least until the advent of Donald Trump, in the American government seems willing to ask, "Why is the American taxpayer responsible for these people? Condoms are cheap. Let their own countries pay for them."

So maybe a few third-world dictators and warlords have to go without a castle or two to pay for a few clinics. That seems like a win-win. Those dictators and warlords will do nothing of the sort, of course. But again - why is it always our problem to fix?

Why in the name of all that's sane and orderly do the governments of the rest of the entire world always come to the United States with their hands out whenever they can't adequately care for their own people?

Reducing our government spending would be reason enough to do this, but honestly, there's no sane ethical universe in which American taxpayers should be responsible for any of this. If Americans want to donate to charities that will pick up this work, great; Americans are among the most charitable people in the world. But that's voluntary. Paying our taxes is not.

Enough is enough already. We can spring for a couple of C-17s to load all those surplus condoms up and airdrop them over some towns and cities. After that, we take care of our own. Like someone said recently, America first.