Political Quotes

“I would like to clarify a couple of points that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) raised. Mr. Chairman, let me first mention the purpose of family planning. Family planning's purpose is to allow information to be distributed to women with regard to pregnancy prevention. Family planning information, family planning education, family planning counseling, prevents abortions. Women in developing countries oftentimes are living off of very minimal resources and do not have a lot of money, and they only have maybe one or two health clinics within a radius of 500 or 600 miles. They need to learn how to space their children. That is what this amendment incorporated in the committee is about. It is about preventing abortions through the use of family planning methods which provide information to women with regard to the spacing of their children and information with regard to how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS.”