[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 101 (Tuesday, July 23, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H5097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND AND ABORTION

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the common accusation in Washington, D.C. is 
that we say one thing and then do another. It was back in the campaign 
of 2000 and in March of this year that President George W. Bush pledged 
to the American people that he would not permit taxpayer dollars to be 
used to fund abortion. Specifically, in March of this year the 
President said, ``I said we are not going to use taxpayer money to fund 
abortion. I am going to make sure we are not using taxpayer money to 
fund abortion.''
  Yesterday the President, as has been his wont with the American 
people, the President once again was a man as good as his word. The 
State Department announced that UNFPA funding would be denied in its 
entirety and diverted to other children's services at the United 
Nations.
  This institution gave more than $34 million to the United Nations 
Family Planning Fund, despite overwhelming evidence presented before 
House committees and the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence that China was engaged in forced and coercive abortion 
practices.
  I rise today to extol the President of the United States for being a 
man as good as his word, for standing with the American people in their 
fundamental belief in the dignity and the sanctity of human life.

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