Political Quotes

“Madam Chairman, since 1969 when the program was developed with the help of the United States of America, United Nations Family Planning Fund has met an incredible need. That need is that in developing countries in Africa and Asia and Central and South America, throughout the world, women find themselves hopelessly enmeshed in poverty without access to healthcare and without access to family planning services; and the result of that, as the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley) said, they have more pregnancies than they can bear physically. They have more children than they can feed, and their children are condemned to another cycle of poverty. United Nations Family Planning Agency in 160 countries meets that need so women around the world have access as Americans do. The gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) wants to cut that program in half with this amendment, and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) wants to make sure that in 159 of those countries access to this service is cut because in one country, China, something terrible happens and that is coercive abortions. But when the President sent his team over there to China to find out what UNFPA's role was, they said we find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the PRC.”