Number: RL30830
Title: International Family Planning: The "Mexico City" Policy
Authors: Larry Nowels, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: At an August 1984 International Conference on Population held in Mexico City, Reagan Administration officials announced a new U.S. family planning policy requiring all nongovernmental organizations receiving population aid from the United States to agree that they would not perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries. The policy continued through early 1993 when President Clinton removed it. On January 22, 2001, President Bush issued a memorandum directing USAID "to reinstate in full all of the requirements of the Mexico City Policy in effect on January 19, 1993."
Pages: 12
Date: Updated April 2, 2001