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To: Sabertooth
In 1984, President Reagan issued a directive during the Mexico City Conference on Population which would prohibit foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) receiving population aid from the United States from using their OWN funds for providing abortion services and from holding discussions on possible abortion services. (Note: U.S. money for abortion overseas has been prohibited since 1973).

Reagan's EO was to prohibit private organizations from using their own funds for overseas abortions.

1,511 posted on 01/22/2004 7:36:47 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: Texasforever
Reagan's EO was to prohibit private organizations from using their own funds for overseas abortions.

1. No, not quite. See #1513. Reagan denied federal grants to private orgs that were funding abortions or promoting abortion rights.

2. In any event, your claim was "Bush has actually signed anti-abortion measures, Reagan never did," and it's not true.


1,517 posted on 01/22/2004 7:45:09 PM PST by Sabertooth (Pakistani Illegal Aliens Deport Themselves - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058591/posts)
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