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If we really want to prevent abortions, and all of us do, we will never accomplish this
by making them illegal. That will only make them unsafe. As the Alan Guttmacher
study released yesterday makes clear, even when abortion is illegal, women who need
the procedure find a way -- but often at great risk to themselves. Every year, almost
600,000 women die of pregnancy related causes -- and 78,000 of these deaths are
because of unsafe abortions.
Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to personally visit clinics all over
the world, where family planning is decreasing the abortion rate -- and helping women
gain authority and dignity in their own lives. I remember visiting a maternity hospital
in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where they had integrated family planning and
reproductive health into their maternal and child health services.
That is why I am particularly pleased that the President's budget will include:
UNFPA is the largest multilateral donor organization in the population sector and
concentrates its assistance to countries in the areas of reproductive health and voluntary
family planning, population policy and advocacy. Congress eliminated funding for this
program last year because it continues to fund efforts in China (though the Fund did
not fund abortion). You will announce that the President's FY 2000 budget proposes a
$25 million voluntary contribution to the UNFPA, $5 million more than the President's
FY 1999 budget proposal.
You will announce that the FY 2000 budget includes a $15 million increase over
FY 1999 enacted funds in international family planning assistance. The United
States, through US AID, is the largest bilateral donor for international family
planning services. US AID supports a wide range of family planning programs
in key developing countries, including direct services and commodities (though
U.S. funds are prohibited by law and Administration policy from paying for
abortions. The FY 2000 budget requests a total of $400 million for international
family planning assistance.
I look forward to working with you to meet the challenges ahead. Thank you for all your
work.
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