On July 15, by a vote of 216 to 211, the House passed an amendment to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R.1950) authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R.-N.J.). The pro-life amendment restores the Kemp-Kasten law prohibiting taxpayer funding of population control programs that involve coercion.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the organization targeted by this amendment; an organization that has for years tolerated and cooperated in forced abortions and sterilizations in China.
Smith brought the amendment to the floor because pro-abortion Rep. Joe Crowley (D.-N.Y.) inserted language into H.R. 1950 in committee that gutted the law. "The UNFPA has funded, provided crucial technical support, and provided cover for massive crimes of forced abortion and involuntary sterilization," said Smith, a moderate who is well known for his defense of human life and international human rights. "Tens of millions of children have been slaughtered, their mothers robbed of their children by the state. The UNFPA has aggressively defended this barbaric policy that makes brothers and sisters illegal and makes women the pawns of population control cadres," said Smith
Smith also referenced statistics that showed there may be as many as 100 million more men than women in China, clearly a direct result of the one-child-per-couple policy.
But Crowley denied that these facts were results of his legislation.
"The UNFPA does not provide for abortion," he said. "When women have the access to contraception to plan their families, their economic livelihoods improve."
Rep. Joe Pitts (R.-Pa.) supported Smith’s agenda.
"Some in this body are more committed to using taxpayer money to force Chinese women to have abortions because they have chosen to have children," said Pitts. "They are so deeply committed to forcing these women to have abortions that they have already prevented us from sending more than $60 million to people in need."
Still, left-wingers couldn’t seem to understand that UNFPA does, in effect, fund abortions.
"UNFPA saves the lives of women and their children," said Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D.-Tex.). "It prevents abortions."
A "yes" vote was in favor of Smith’s amendment to cut off funding from the United Nation’s Population Fund, an organization that cooperates in forcing Chinese women to kill their children. A "no" vote is in opposition to the pro-life amendment and in support of Communist genocide.
| FOR THE AMENDMENT: 216 | AGAINST THE AMENDMENT: 211 |
| REPUBLICANS FOR: 194 Aderholt Akin Bachus Baker Ballenger Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Beauprez Bereuter Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, V. Burgess Burns Burr Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Cannon Cantor Carter Chabot Chocola Coble Cole Collins Cox Crane Crenshaw Cubin Culberson Cunningham Davis, Jo Ann Deal (GA) DeLay DeMint Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doolittle Dreier Duncan Ehlers Emerson English Everett Feeney Flake Fletcher Forbes Fossella Franks (AZ) Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gibbons Gillmor Gingrey Goode Goodlatte Goss Graves Green (WI) Gutknecht Harris Hart Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayes Hefley Hensarling Herger Hobson Hoekstra Hostettler Hulshof Hunter Hyde Isakson Issa Istook Jenkins Johnson, Sam Johnson (IL) Jones (NC) Keller Kennedy (MN) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kline Knollenberg LaHood Latham LaTourette Lewis (KY) Linder LoBiondo Lucas (OK) Manzullo McCotter McCrery McHugh McInnis McKeon Mica Miller, Gary Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Moran (KS) Murphy Musgrave Myrick Nethercutt Neugebauer Ney Northup Norwood Nunes Nussle Osborne Otter Oxley Paul Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Pombo Porter Portman Putnam Quinn Radanovich Regula Rehberg Renzi Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Royce Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Saxton Schrock Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (MI) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Souder Stearns Sullivan Tancredo Tauzin Taylor (NC) Terry Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Toomey Turner (OH) Upton Vitter Walsh Wamp Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Whitfield Wicker Wilson (SC) Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL) DEMOCRATS FOR: 22 |
REPUBLICANS AGAINST: 31 Bass Biggert Boehlert Bradley (NH) Capito Castle Davis, Tom Dunn Foley Frelinghuysen Gerlach Gilchrest Granger Houghton Johnson (CT) Kelly Kirk Kolbe Leach Lewis (CA) Ose Platts Pryce (OH) Ramstad Shaw Shays Simmons Sweeney Thomas Walden (OR) Wilson (NM) DEMOCRATS AGAINST: 179 INDEPENDENT AGAINST: 1 |
NOT VOTING: 8
| REPUBLICANS (4): | DEMOCRATS (4): | INDEPENDENTS (0) |
| Ferguson Greenwood Hayworth Janklow |
Berkley Gephardt Jefferson Millender-McDonald |
