So it is convenient to cite a 2008 report, but not convenient to cite a 2009 report. Is that correct?

It's estimated that more than 2 million young women live with untreated obstetric fistula in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa alone.

Respectfully, I would ask for a recorded vote on that.

We are being awfully selective in the reporting we want to cite.

We are about, in passing this bill, to turn our back on all of that progress because of a political issue that I think does not hold up under scrutiny.

Why are we going to hinder the kinds of aid that they need?

A wholesale cutting of funding to an entire program is not a path forward.

Please think about how all of us felt when that devastating earthquake took place.

One in every 47 pregnancies in Haiti turns fatal during delivery.

If you want to prevent abortions, this is what we should be doing. And that is exactly what UNFPA does.

I commend my colleagues, Mr. Smith of New Jersey and the ranking member, Mr. Berman of California, for introducing H.R. 2830.

the State Department in the last administration... found, 'no evidence, no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the People's…

UNFPA does not promote abortion as a method of family planning period.

Rather than lobbing another grenade in our culture wars, this committee should be working to strengthen maternal mortality prevention efforts.

I think we need to really be careful as we move this bill forward so that we do not compromise the objectives...

I would hope she could support this amendment.

Fistula can be completely repaired up to 90 percent of the time if survivors have access to a trained surgeon.

Picking on the UNFPA as an easy target, irrespective of the fact that its record is clean, and what it is doing to protect women and women's health is essential.