[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13931-13932]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  APPLAUDING PRESIDENT BUSH FOR REDIRECTING UNFPA FUNDING TO PROTECT 
                              HUMAN RIGHTS

  (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, President Bush has provided 
hope to oppressed women everywhere, especially in China, promising them 
that the United States will no longer subsidize those who engage in 
forced abortion and other coercive population control programs.
  For over 20 years, Mr. Speaker, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) has 
enabled facilitated, and shamelessly whitewashed terrible crimes 
against humanity, especially crimes against women, and the United 
States will now no longer have any part in subsidizing them. In 
refusing to fund the UNFPA, our President and our country have taken 
the side of the oppressed and have refused to cooperate with the 
oppressor. The United States will now no longer directly or indirectly 
fund the brutal, oppressive Chinese Government's violence against 
women.
  Mr. Speaker, as Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday, UNFPA

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funds have provided crucial technical support that has made China's 
barbaric program more effective. That means that as a result of UNFPA's 
complicity with China's antilife program more women are targeted for 
forced abortions.
  Mr. Speaker, tens of millions of children have been slaughtered and 
their mothers have been robbed by the state of their children. The 
UNFPA for over 20 years has aggressively defended the indefensible, 
this barbaric policy that makes brothers and sisters illegal and makes 
women the victims of population control cadres.
  This whitewashing of crimes against humanity must end. My hope is 
that other parliaments around the world, will take a good long second 
look at the one child per couple policy in China and cease their 
enabling of this violence against women.
  Thank you President Bush.

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