Andrea Joy Campbell: “the important distinction between what the Smith amendment provides and the Pelosi-Greenwood amendment provides is this…”

“the important distinction between what the Smith amendment provides and the Pelosi-Greenwood amendment provides is this: Many women seek family planning counseling after they realize that they are pregnant. I wish it were not so, and I am sure everybody agrees with me that they wish it were not so. But as a result, if you deny any opportunity for the United States to assist with the family planning agency because it also offers advice on abortion, you would prevent the opportunity for giving family planning advice that would prevent second abortions, third abortions, fourth abortions. Let me get into some of the statistics, because it is fascinating how the use of family planning has prevented those subsequent abortions. The AID studies tell us that in Tanzania, Egypt, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Hungary, and Russia, studies they have made in each category of each country, when opportunities were available for contraception, incidence of abortion dropped dramatically. It would be the wish of everyone in this debate that the incidence of abortion be eliminated in this world. But we face today an imperfect world, and if you say to a woman, you may go and seek advice, but the agency from which you seek advice cannot offer you help on abortion, she will not go there. And then that woman may have a second, third, and fourth abortion, the horrors that my colleagues have presented to us.”