Political Quotes

“Madam President, reserving the right to object, here we are again--another day, another sympathetically titled bill offered by my Democratic colleagues wherein the talking points don't really give you the full story--case in point, the Right to Contraception Act. The so-called Right to Contraception Act purposefully goes far beyond the scope of contraception. It includes provisions that could guarantee the funding of abortion providers and that defines ``contraceptive'' in such a broad way that it could include drugs to induce an abortion weeks or months into a pregnancy. This definition also could include non-FDA-approved drugs that would actually put a woman's health at risk. The bill also flies in the face of decades of work in providing for conscience protections. It would require organizations to administer contraceptives despite their moral or religious beliefs. There is something insidious with this bill, but don't take it from me. Look to the bill's text itself. The ``findings'' section of this bill notes the work of an organization that many of my colleagues will recognize: The United Nations Population Fund. This is the same organization that contributed over $10 million to a mass sterilization campaign in Peru in the nineties. That campaign was rife with coercive practices: Quotas were set; cash bonuses were paid to health workers for each client sterilized; and poor women were bribed with nutritional supplements and clothes for their children.…”