Reproductive Health Services
Another one of President Trump’s first acts in office was to restore a policy preventing recipients of American foreign aid from performing or counseling on abortions. The policy — known as the Mexico City Policy by its proponents for the location of a United Nations meeting where President Ronald Reagan first announced it in 1984 — has been in effect during successive Republican administrations and revoked under Democratic ones. President George W. Bush last reinstated the policy in 2001 in an Executive order that rescinded President Bill Clinton’s Executive order issued in 1993. President Barack Obama reversed it again shortly…
