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...gag rule recipients of U.S. family planning assistance overseas as the first salvo in his administration's campaign to export its antiabortion agenda to the rest of the world. For the last three years, he has refused on ideological grounds to authorize a contribution to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), rendering the United States the only donor country to deny funding to UNFPA for nonbudgetary reasons. And while--to his credit--he has made addressing the global HIV/AIDS pandemic a high U.S. priority, public health experts from around the world condemn his administration's overemphasis on morality-based approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention coupled with constant questioning about the effectiveness of condom use.
As for the agreements reached at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the president's accumulated actions have distanced the United States from its own position in Cairo and from governmental reaffirmations of the Cairo Program of Action from every region of the world. The Bush administration has tried repeatedly to win converts to its approach; still, the United States--even as it begins to recognize the importance of global cooperation on the larger world stage--stands virtually alone on the eve of the commemorations of the ICPD's 10th anniversary, siding with the Vatican and a handful of other countries such as Sudan and Libya on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
Payback Time
During his first presidential campaign in 2000, President Bush assured his antiabortion base that he would resurrect the so-called Mexico City policy instituted by President Reagan in 1984 and continued by his father during his own presidency; the policy, revoked by President Clinton, requires foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), in order to be eligible for family planning aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to forego use of their own funds...
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