Abortion Cutoff

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For six years, as population pressures fueled poverty and despair, millions of women in developing countries have been held hostage to U.S. abortion politics. Yet the international dimensions of U.S. policy

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The first World Population Conference, held in 1974, led to an international consensus, strongly supported by the United States, on the link between poverty and overpopulation. In the ensuing decade, government and private family planning programs provided health care and contraceptive advice to millions of women around the world. However, at the second conference, held in Mexico City in 1984, the United States reversed its position, arguing that population …