I can speak to that a little bit. Even under the gag rule, if you're a health care worker in the field, whether there are dollars coming in or not--and it will be very difficult to describe dollars going in--it will be more at the level of who among the NGOs gets moneys than about the actual provision of care in the clinic on the ground.
You will have health care providers, in some cases, when there is capacity, who will provide appropriate care. If it's an NGO that isn't receiving funding to provide abortions, then there will be areas where there won't be care.
Women will die, and women will die if there aren't functioning health care systems. Ultimately, this is not our decision about who receives and who does not receive an abortion. We should not be involved in this discussion as a nation. That is up to the individual woman and her health care providers. I don't even want to say that it's up to the law in the country, because it is not. We all, as women and as people, have to get past this. It's ridiculous.
I'm seeing what is going on with the politicization of this committee. We're wasting this opportunity to support Canada taking a leadership role, including the provision of.... I've been sitting here for an hour and a half now, somewhat aghast, as I realize the division within this committee. What is going on here?
Being so absolutely, humanly... I'm asking the question. What is happening here politically? Are you really saying that in 2010 a woman should die because Canada said, based on politics, that we wouldn't be providing funding for her, when we ourselves, and our daughters, have that choice?