Mexico City policy

A mobile clinic outside Mombassa, Kenya, provides women in rural areas with family planning options like contraceptive implants and offers cervical cancer screening as well.

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Trump Bans U.S. Funding For Groups That 'Promote' Abortion Overseas

8:29pm January 23, 2017

by Nurith Aizenman

The new president has reinstated the "Mexico City" policy first instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1984. And this version is even broader than previous ones.

President Ronald Reagan at a political rally.

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Will Trump Reinstate Reagan's Abortion Rule For International Charities?

12:14pm December 06, 2016

by Nurith Aizenman

The "Mexico City policy" blocked federal funds for international family-planning charities if they were to "promote" abortion.