The Trump Administration has issued a detailed report designed to assure swing voters that the Administration's 'Mexico City Policy" is largely meaningless. The report makes no claim that a single abortion has been prevented by the policy.
Republican operatives have long held out the 'Mexico City Policy' as a bone to social conservatives as a way of advancing their twin objectives of doing less for the poor and opposing abortion. The policy meant that under certain carefully preselected circumstances, international organizations could not receive federal grants if they used non-US funds to perform or refer clients to abortions. The policy was carefully written to not disallow hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to groups favored by the Republican Party.
The Trump Administration is now appealing to pro-choice voters with a report that the policy only impact 8 out of 1,360 direct grantees. It does also not dispute the finding that of the 8 health care organizations, the policy has resulted in an increased number of abortions as women did not receive health care that may have led them to choose life.
While the MCP has resulted in no evidence that it has prevented a single abortion, the Trump Administration has actually INCREASED funding to entities not covered under the MCP but who receive foreign aid and pay for abortions.
A copy of the report can be found here:
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