Ronald Reagan

The Mexico City Policy: A Short History

1984: President Ronald Reagan passed the Mexico City Policy. The Policy required nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to agree as a condition of their receipt of federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.

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Saving the Mexico City Policy

Pro-lifers scored a significant victory in Congress recently, a victory due to a courageous stand made by pro-life congressmen and senators, and ultimately the President, against massive opposition. Gutting the Mexico City Policy Earlier in 2007, legislation intended to gut the Mexico City Policy sailed

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Saving the Mexico City Policy

Vol. 9 / No. 47 Dear Colleague, Faced with a presidential veto, the pro-aborts caved. Language fatally weakening the Mexico City policy has been removed from the omnibus bill that will fund the federal government for the next year. The original Mexico City policy, and

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House Democrats Stage Hearing on the Mexico City Policy

Vol. 9 / No. 41 On October 31, 2007, Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) held what NARAL president Nancy Keenan called “the first fair-minded House hearing on reproductive health in 12 years.” The hearing was an open meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on

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Misplaced Priorities

2 July 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 23 Dear Colleague, Mr. President, it’s time to put divisive issues aside and put the Reagan coalition back together. Steve Mosher Misplaced Priorities: It’s Time for Bush to Return to his Pro-Life Roots President George W. Bush has

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President’s Page: Remembering Reagan

I forget who sent me a copy of Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation in early 1984, but I do remember that it was one of the first, perhaps the first, pro-life books that I had ever read. I had returned to the U.S.

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Saving the Mexico City Policy

Pro-lifers scored a significant victory in Congress recently, a victory due to a courageous stand made by pro-life congressmen and senators, and ultimately the President,

Read More »

Saving the Mexico City Policy

Vol. 9 / No. 47 Dear Colleague, Faced with a presidential veto, the pro-aborts caved. Language fatally weakening the Mexico City policy has been removed

Read More »

Misplaced Priorities

2 July 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 23 Dear Colleague, Mr. President, it’s time to put divisive issues aside and put the Reagan coalition back

Read More »