"Rather than lobbing another grenade in our culture wars, this committee should be working to strengthen maternal mortality prevention efforts."
"If you want to prevent abortions, this is what we should be doing. And that is exactly what UNFPA does."
"This is nothing short of a smear campaign against an international organization of which we are a member that promotes and protects the health of women and their children all over the world."
"Picking on the UNFPA as an easy target, irrespective of the fact that its record is clean, and what it is doing to protect women and women's health is essential."
"A human rights violation is a human rights violation, irrespective of status."
"Do not hold UNFPA responsible for what a sovereign country does, as obnoxious as it is, unless you have an allegation of advocacy and support that has not yet been presented."
"We are about, in passing this bill, to turn our back on all of that progress because of a political issue that I think does not hold up under scrutiny."
"We cannot turn our back on this important work that stands up for women's rights and helps protect women's lives."
"I would hope she could support this amendment."
"It's estimated that more than 2 million young women live with untreated obstetric fistula in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa alone."
"Fistula can be completely repaired up to 90 percent of the time if survivors have access to a trained surgeon."
"Respectfully, I would ask for a recorded vote on that."