The Mexico City policy cuts off USAID funding to foreign organizations that perform some abortions.  The theory behind the policy is that those organizations would stop providing abortions in order to retain this financial assistance from the U.S. government.  It was a good idea that failed miserably.

Instead, most of these foreign organizations continue to provide abortions.  But the resulting elimination of USAID also cut off access to US supplies of condoms and other forms of birth control.  This has lead to a decrease in contraceptive use and an increase in the rates of unintended pregnancies and abortion.  It also has led to a decrease in the ability of these organizations to provide sex education which has also resulted in an increase in unplanned pregnancies and abortions.

And on top of that, there are so many loopholes in the Mexico City policy, that a number of organziations continued to provide abortions even while the policy was in effect.  For more information on this, please visit:  http://covenantnews.com/bortvote.htm

The Mexico City policy is one that sounds good in a political stump speech and is used for partisan political purposes, but it is effectively a pro-abortion policy, not a pro-Life policy.

A prime example of Ronald Reagan's quote that "Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them," would be the Mexico City policy he instituted.

By eliminating the pro-abortion Mexico City policy, Obama has made good early on his pledge to provide smart government, rather than more government or less government.