Republicans are fuming at the State Department after learning that recipients of funding from the legacy program to curb HIV/AIDS across Africa, PEPFAR, performed abortions in violation of U.S. law.

U.S. officials told members of Congress that a review of PEPFAR-funded service providers in Mozambique had revealed that four nurses had performed 21 abortions since January 2021, Reuters reported this week.

While abortion is legal in that country, service providers across Africa that get funding through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are barred under U.S. law from providing abortion services.

The State Department presented its findings to the Senate Foreign Relations........

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