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To: Texasforever
What EO did Reagan EVER issue regarding abortion? I have to see it.

Here's one...

The abortion provision that Smith wants would write into law an executive order issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Clinton reversed the order in 1993, shortly after taking office. The United States has barred direct financing for abortion since 1973, but the 1984 policy, known familiarly as "Mexico City" since Reagan announced it during a United Nations conference there, denied grants to international family-planning organizations for any purpose if they promoted abortion rights. Since gaining control of Congress in 1994, Republicans have tried to write the provision into law. And since 1997, Smith has pressured Republican Speakers Newt Gingrich of Georgia and now J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois to support him in attaching the abortion provision to bills that would repay the United Nations.
Abortion Discord Holds Up UN Dues and US Budget
Eric Schmitt - November 11, 1999 - New York Times

Sorta takes care of your "Reagan never dids" on both abortion and the UN, in one shot.

I think there was another EO by Reagan regarding funding for abortions for women in the military, or something along those lines.


1,513 posted on 01/22/2004 7:39:36 PM PST by Sabertooth (Pakistani Illegal Aliens Deport Themselves - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058591/posts)
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To: Sabertooth
Sorta takes care of your "Reagan never dids" on both abortion and the UN, in one shot.

Nope. It was an EO that Bush reinstated. That EO had nothing to do with domestic abortion Bush signing the PBA ban did. The 1988 abortion bill ONLY prohibited abortions at Military hospitals it did not prohibit military personnel from having an abortion. Both the Reagan EO and the 1988 bill were process measures NOT bills actually restricting abortion procedures. The only restrictions placed were the locations that could not perform abortions, Military facilities, and international restrictions concerning population control aid when abortion was an option.

1,523 posted on 01/22/2004 7:50:53 PM PST by Texasforever
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