> Checking now on the Planned Parenthood funding in Afghanistan.....
"The Bush administration has withheld, for the third consecutive year, funds earmarked for UNFPA."
The Gag Rule, in place since Reagan with a brief hiatus under Clinton, forbids any US funds going to any organization offshore that even *mentions* abortion.
Got to look deeper than that. Moneys that go for one thing to PP easily wind up elsewhere.