Jay Dickey: “I would like to say I am on this subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, and this issue did not come up for…”

“I would like to say I am on this subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, and this issue did not come up for discussion. We have in our laws the provision that no Federal funding will be made available for abortions, time and time again, both domestically and in foreign relations and in our appropriations for foreign countries. This is because people differ on this issue, but we mainly prohibit any Federal funding. In this case we would have Federal funding because of an agency's decision and not because of a vote of this body. I am against that. I think abortion is wrong. That is my opinion. I think abortion is wrong. I do not think for sure that we ought to have Federal funding. This is a way that we can avoid having this attempt for Federal funding for abortion when it is against the women of the people of America.”