Political Quotes

“I would be opposed to a penny of this money going to any program that did not preach and teach abstinence. It is absolutely necessary. My concern with the amendment is it would allow money to go to programs that do abstinence only. The problem with that, and I have friends from Africa who are with us today who have just explained to us, if we take a woman whose husband has contracted HIV and she needs a condom and the only program in her community is a program that simply does abstinence and nothing else, then we have done nothing for her and it will cost her her life, and it will cost the lives of the children that she bears. If every program provided abstinence, I would be for the Pitts amendment completely. But the Pitts amendment, by allowing a third of the money to go to programs that provide abstinence, will allow programs that provide abstinence only and that certainly is insufficient, as everyone has agreed.”