David Obey: “I support family planning both at home and internationally because I think it is the best way to prevent abortions. The…”

“I support family planning both at home and internationally because I think it is the best way to prevent abortions. The last time the Smith amendment was before the House, I supported it because I thought that he was right and I was personally fed up with the way that the administration and the United Nations continued to finance and apologize for the coercive abortion policy in China. So I voted with the Smith amendment. I, at that time, asked the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith] in the future to please separate the issue of Mexico City from the issue of China because I thought that would at least guarantee some positive steps forward with respect to the Chinese issue. That has not been done in his amendment, but it has been done in the Pelosi amendment. The Pelosi amendment in essence will say that unless the U.N. population program gets out of China, and there is no question that they practice coercive abortion policies in that country, that we will get our money, we will take our money out of the United Nations population program. That is what ought to happen. I urge support for the Pelosi amendment.”