Obama Overturns 'Mexico City Policy' Implemented by Reagan

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Source: ABC

Obama Overturns 'Mexico City Policy' Implemented by Reagan
U.S. Can Now Give Federal Funding To International Family Planning Groups That Provide Abortion Services
By JAKE TAPPER, SUNLEN MILLER and HUMA KHAN
President Obama signed an executive order today reversing the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions, as first reported by ABC News.

Under the hotly debated "Mexico City Policy," the U.S. government cannot provide funding for family planning services to clinics or groups that offer abortion-related services overseas, even if funding for those activities comes from non-government sources. It essentially bars recipients of U.S. foreign aid from promoting abortion as a method of family planning.

If organizations received government funding, they would "agree as a condition of their receipt of federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."



Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/International/story?id=6716958&page=1

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