William Helms: “Simply put, section 3001 is another enormous additional gift of the American taxpayers' dollars to various pro-abortion…”

“Simply put, section 3001 is another enormous additional gift of the American taxpayers' dollars to various pro-abortion organizations, and the House will never agree to it. Because of this issue, the fiscal year 1996 foreign operations appropriations bill bounced back and forth between the House and Senate for several months until a compromise was worked out on the previous continuing resolution. And unless section 3001 is changed, Congress will be in precisely the same predicament as before; section 3001, as currently drawn, will grind the Federal Government to a halt, and the blame will perch squarely on the shoulders of section 3001's supporters in the Senate. Mr. President, I am bewildered at suggestions that section 3001 of the pending bill is somehow pro-life. The author of section 3001, Chairman Hatfield, stated on the Senate floor this past month, and repeated in Saturday's Washington Post that 'For those of us who take a pro-life position, this is the most effective way to reiterate our profound opposition to the practice of abortion.' Mr. President, I have constantly sought to protect the lives of unborn children throughout my 24 years in the Senate.”