1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Support UNFPA Funding Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the United Nations reproductive health agency. (2) UNFPA was founded with the leadership of the United States and works in more than 150 countries to end preventable maternal deaths, the unmet need for contraception, and gender-based violence and other harmful practices, including female genital mutilation and child marriage. (3) UNFPA also ensures access to health care and essential supplies for women and families impacted by emergencies. (4) All UNFPA programming is guided by principles adopted by 179 governments, including the United States, at the 1994 International Conference for Population and Development. The principles include that reproductive health care programs should provide the widest range of services without any form of coercion. All couples and individuals have the basic right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information, education and means to do so. . (5) UNFPA is currently working to address the needs of the following: (A) The 800 women and adolescent girls who die each day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, most of which occur in developing countries and more than half of which occur in fragile and humanitarian settings. (B) The more than 218,000,000 women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries who want to avoid pregnancy and are not using a modern contraceptive method. (C) The estimated 1 in 3 women who experience gender-based violence. (D) The estimated 200,000,000 women who have survived some form of female genital mutilation. (E) The estimated 12,000,000 girls who are forcibly married before the age of 18 each year. (6) UNFPA, which works in three times as many countries as the United States Agency for International Development, extends the impact of United States foreign assistance by reaching people in politically unstable