Sam Gejdenson: “It is easy to get caught up in the process of what we do here, but the substance is also terribly important. I would…”

“It is easy to get caught up in the process of what we do here, but the substance is also terribly important. I would say, for both procedural reasons and substantive reasons, we should reject the proposition of my colleague that is before us today. The substantive reasons are more important than any other, because, after all, we work in this process and process is important, but substance is what brings us to Congress. It is substance that we fight for in the policies, and the substance here is very clear. As we have been able to expand family planning, we have not only improved the economic situation of the poorest of the poor in this world, we have not only been able to reduce death and injury to the mothers of the children of this world, but we have also reduced abortion, reduced abortion across the globe where U.S. family planning funds were able to exercise freely and compete in the globe.”