Barbara Boxer: “colleagues, if you voted to repeal the global gag rule, then the obvious way to vote on this amendment is no. What the…”

“colleagues, if you voted to repeal the global gag rule, then the obvious way to vote on this amendment is no. What the Senator is trying to do is to strip a very simple thing out of the bill, which says that we are not going to deny contraceptives to family planning groups simply because they do not toe the line with the global gag rule. If you voted with us to do away with the global gag rule, you certainly would vote to do away with this amendment. Why would we deny contraception to families who need it desperately? It would be a terrible vote to vote aye on this amendment because you are consigning a lot of women to abortion, and we do not want to do that. We want to get them contraception. So if you believe in family planning, this is a very clear ``no'' vote on the Brownback amendment. I thank my colleagues very much.”