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Mark Souder: I am aware that we have directly banned abortion funding, but the question and what we have tried to address and what…

On the recordJuly 13, 2000
I am aware that we have directly banned abortion funding, but the question and what we have tried to address and what this language tries to address is fungible funding. The argument of many of us is that in an organization that on the one hand does abortions, and on the other hand does family planning, which I as an individual do not oppose and believe many of these countries do in fact need family planning, that does not take life once life has begun, that these funds, even though they are claimed to be privately raised, are in fact fungible.
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Discussing the implications of fungible funding in relation to abortion and family planning.

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