DeLay supported mandatory company abortions

On DeLay's fact-finding mission to an American territory in the Pacific local groups including missionaries hoped that the congressmen would apply minimum regulation to sweatshops run by Asian merchants.

The merchants had set up sweatshops in Saipan eager to get the Made in USA label without coming under US labor laws and regulations.

Little did the groups supporting the virtual prisoners know that his "closest and dearest friend" lobbyist Jack Abramoff had bought DeLay. Abramoff's company represented the Saipan manufacturers for $8 million.

Among the objections the Baptist and Catholic church groups had was that the ruthless clothing manufacturers had enforced mandatory abortions on their guest workers housed in prison-like conditions. The workers not able to leave earned $2.90 an hour minus company store prices for food, housing and transportation.

DeLay's personal ethics have global consequences