Sam Brownback: “responding to a couple of the comments of my colleague from California, I would like to cite and include in the Record a…”

“responding to a couple of the comments of my colleague from California, I would like to cite and include in the Record a Congressional Research Service report on international family planning, the Mexico City policy. This report is dated April 2, 2001. And then another one, an updated one on population assistance and family planning programs, issued for Congress, May 19, 2003. In the 2003 report, I want to cite this briefly because we are getting involved in a discussion about what the wording of the Boxer amendment does and what it does not do. I contend that clearly what could take place with the passage of the Boxer amendment, is that money could go to a foreign organization that performs abortions. These organizations can't use the money directly for abortions, but they can move private money to do abortions while using the government money for advocacy. That is what I am saying. My colleague is giving the illustration of this tragic situation that has occurred where there has been a rape in Nepal and this is a heart-rending example of these types of cases right before us now. Regardless of how you view life, and when human life begins, we are going to set that issue aside but I hope we get to debate that issue one of these days.…”