Cutting aid to stop abortion
Although the U.S. has long sought to ease the problem of overpopulation in the Third World, federal law bans the use of U.S. funds to finance abortions overseas. The Reagan Administration is now considering an even more stringent policy: withholding family-planning assistance from any population-control program funded by governments or private organizations that sanction abortion as a method of birth control. The plan was hailed by pro-life groups, but it has perplexed foreign aid experts, State Department officials and population control groups.
Reagan advisers in the Office of Policy Development drew up the severe new proposal for review...
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