[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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                      SUPPORTING A SUCCESSFUL ICPD

  (Mrs. MORELLA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, worldwide efforts to stabilize population 
growth, alleviate poverty, and protect the environment have been 
significantly undermined by the lack of attention to women's 
reproductive health and the role of women in the economic development 
of their families, their communities, and their countries.
  The world's population now exceeds 5.5 billion, and more than 90 
percent of the annual population increase of 100 million people is in 
the developing world. Whether the Earth's population doubles or triples 
in the next century will be determined by actions we take during this 
decade to improve access to family planning programs for all women who 
desire it.
  Later this year, the decennial International Conference on Population 
and Development will meet in Cairo to discuss strategies for slowing 
rapid population growth and assuring access to family planning services 
for all women and couples who desire them.
  I am pleased to be joined today by my colleagues Tony Beilenson, with 
whom I cochair the Congressional Coalition on Population and 
Development, and John Porter, president of GLOBE-USA, in introducing a 
resolution which calls on the administration to place the highest 
priority on the success of the Cairo conference. I urge my colleagues 
to join us in support of this legislation.

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