Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for your testimony. You've added a great deal in terms of scope and depth to this study, and I appreciate it very much.
I want to start with Ms. McDonald, although certainly, please, if you have something to add....
I'm quite fascinated by the Maputo plan of action because one of the things we very often hear is that women have absolutely no control over what happens to them in terms of their reproduction. In some instances, in some countries, they can't determine when or with whom they will have sexual relations, and some of them are very young. The fact that all African nations indicated that abortion was allowed in some circumstances I think suggests that there's some progress or some understanding being made here. I just wondered, in what situations would abortion be allowed. Would it be rape, the mother's life in danger, etc.?
It also seems to me that unless somebody is there on the ground monitoring every single case, if a woman simply needed to have an abortion because there were too many babies to feed, who is going to be there saying, no, you can't have this service?