For 8 years this language assured our great Nation would not directly or indirectly support or promote abortion as a method of family planning throughout the world. With all the world s great crying needs, we should not be spending out scarce foreign aid dollars to subsidize and promote abortions. The world looks to America for moral leadership. The world looks to America for justice for the weak and the disenfranchised. We should respond to this call for leadership, not by promoting abortion in the poorest nations or the world, but by helping them develop the economic and political infrastructure that encourages development and progress.
Abortion does neither.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a yes vote on H.R. 581.