[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5098-H5099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CLINTON/GORE ACTIONS TO UNDERMINE THE IMPORTANCE OF PARENTS

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, when information reached me 
that the Clinton administration is working hard at the United Nations 
to undermine and to utterly trash the role of parents throughout the 
world, I was outraged. Five years ago at the Cairo Population Control 
Conference Al Gore led an unsuccessful effort to get abortion on demand 
throughout pregnancy declared an international right. Now Bill Clinton 
and Al Gore's hand-picked negotiators at this week's 5-year follow-up 
meeting on the Cairo conference are at it again. They are formally 
pushing to delete from the proposed implementation document the only 
two references urging, quote, respect for the rights, duties and 
responsibilities of parents in the critical areas of sex education and 
reproductive care for adolescents.

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  Ironically, while these anti-parent proposals are being aggressively 
pushed at the U.N., the House is poised to take

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up legislation to protect minor children from abortion through parental 
notification or consent. Despite broad support for the bill and wide 
recognition of the unique importance of parents, this administration is 
threatening to veto this legislation.
  Now, by their delegates' activities at the U.N., Bill Clinton and Al 
Gore are demonstrating that they are not satisfied with undermining 
parental rights at home. They want to impose this policy on foreign 
nations abroad.

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