Tension hung in the air as Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez, the assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), quickly lowered his mouth to the microphone before him so he could answer Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. “We don’t do abortions,” Pablos-Mendez said. “We are so careful with this. We monitor this very carefully everywhere we do work.”
