Various U.S. government agencies have a number of activities, all of which center around women's well-being, that started in Cairo and were augmented in Beijing. We're seeing them take root at the national level in the United States, certainly within the Clinton Administration. I'd also like to say that this has been a very interesting case study on civil society. Since Cairo, non-governmental organizations, including family planning organizations, and health, development, child survival, environmental, human rights, and women's groups, have been brought into the process of looking in an integrated fashion at how to stabilize the world's population. We have a very strong partnership with these groups.
Nobody wants people to be forced to do something that is bad for themselves or their families.
People who want to be sterilized or have an abortion should be fully informed of their other options. But if they do choose to have an abortion or sterilization, it should be safe. There is a very strong and compelling case for giving people the opportunity to make their own informed decisions about their lives and the size and spacing of their families. We all oppose coercion, but that message doesn't always come out as it should. People who equate family planning with abortion are simply wrong.