President Bush Threatens to Veto Attempt to End "Mexico City" Policy

From Family.org:

Each year Congress tries and fails to repeal a policy that prohibits funding abortions overseas.

The White House has delivered a formal message to the Senate Appropriations Committee: the president will veto the foreign operations appropriations bill if it overturns the Mexico City policy.

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Carrie Gordon Earl, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action, applauded the president's firm stance.

"To say that our tax dollars are not going to be used overseas to be given to groups that either coerce or lobby for or do abortions, that is a bright line that has been drawn by the Bush administration and by the Reagan and Bush administrations before him," she said. "The president's not compromising and we applaud him in that."