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House OKs Lifting Contraception Aid Ban
Friday June 22, 2007 6:16 AM
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted narrowly Thursday to reverse a ban on
contraception aid to groups overseas that offer abortions, challenging a
pillar of President Bush's foreign aid policy.
If the proposal passes the Senate, Bush is likely to swiftly veto it and
be upheld by conservative lawmakers, who say no assistance of any kind
should be given to organizations that promote or offer abortions.
The measure, approved 223-201, is intended by the new Democratic
majority to crack open debate on a policy it says is failing badly.
Initiated by President Reagan in 1984 at a population conference in
Mexico City, the policy bars any assistance to organizations abroad that
perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning.
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