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.
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The Israeli justification, advanced by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin, claimed that the attack was vital to Israel's security because, he alleged, Iraq was building a nuclear bomb that will be used against Israeli targets.
After several days of debate and U.S.-Iraqi negotiations behind closed doors at the United Nations, Reagan's ambassador to the world body, Jeane Kirkpatrick, joined the other 14 members of the UN Security Council in a 15-0 vote on June 19 that "strongly condemned" the Israeli raid - a vote which Time magazine described then as "one of the harshest United Nations rebukes of Israel that the U.S. has supported."