re: #385 ggt

Bush said that he is expanding the 2001 order “because family planning grants are awarded by the Department of State outside of USAID, as well as through USAID.” According to the Times, Bush believes that U.S. taxpayer money should not be used to provide financial assistance to international groups that provide abortion-related services (Los Angeles Times, 8/30).

Saying that it was Bush’s policy to deny birth control isn’t quite correct. It was his policy to deny a certain form of birth control not all forms.

That indeed is the origin. It was from the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy which has since been reversed. I mentioned this a couple of times. It wasn’t because of birth control, it was because of the USAid abortion policy.