Political Quotes

“We have all agreed that the Chinese population control program is coercive and, therefore, violative of human rights. We ought to stay a thousand miles away from anything that facilitates that. And yet this money that we give to the population control fund facilitates the Chinese program. Now, what no one has mentioned today is the law in China. The population and family planning law which was adopted a couple of years ago has some chilling phrases in it. Citizens who give birth to a child in violation of Article 18 of this law may be ordered to pay a premium to a fund. Yes, they are ordered to pay a premium triple the yearly income which forces an abortion, coerces an abortion. And guess who enforces the Chinese population law? The People's Liberation Army, the Chinese People's Liberation Army enforces their population law. Now, I listened very carefully to criticisms that the countries are going to be denied family planning. We are the largest spender on the globe, in the galaxy for family planning, and nobody will be denied anything. It just does not go through the U.N.”