[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                             CHILD SURVIVAL

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, around the world today there are daughters 
and sons of many nations whose lives are at stake. Why? In large part 
because our Nation has sought to impose our own population control 
ideas on other countries whose most pressing needs are for basic 
nutrition and health care.

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  Children in these countries are dying. Yet, an increased push for 
population control has come at the expense of saving the lives of 
little children.
  A Kenyan doctor makes this point, and I quote. He says, ``Our health 
sector is collapsed. Thousands of Kenyan people will die of malaria 
whose treatment costs a few cents in health facilities, whose stores 
are stacked to the roof with millions of dollars' worth of pills, IUDs, 
Norplant, Depo-provera, most of which are supplied with American tax 
money.''
  When a mother brought a child with pneumonia to this doctor, he had 
no penicillin to give the child. All he had were cases upon cases of 
contraceptives.
  Madam Speaker, let us respond to the true health needs of these 
people, the needs of life and death. Join in transferring at least a 
portion of the population control funds to what we know works, child 
survival. Join in cosponsoring the Save the Children Act.

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