In 1984, President Ronald Reagan devised what is called the “Mexico City policy,” which prohibits international family planning groups that advocate abortion in any way from receiving funds from the US Agency for International Development. That was a good thing.
In January 1993, one of President Clinton’s first acts in office was to list the ban. That was a bad thing.
In January 2001, President Bush reinstated the ban as his first executive order. That was a good thing.
Yesterday, on his first day in office, President Obama once again removed the restrictions. That was a bad thing.
