[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 4 (Monday, January 29, 2001)]
[Page 216]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Restoration of the Mexico City Policy

January 22, 2001

Memorandum for the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development

Subject: Restoration of the Mexico City Policy

     The Mexico City Policy announced by President Reagan in 1984 
required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their 
receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform 
nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other 
nations. This policy was in effect until it was rescinded on January 22, 
1993.
     It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay 
for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or 
abroad. It is therefore my belief that the Mexico City Policy should be 
restored. Accordingly, I hereby rescind the ``Memorandum for the Acting 
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Subject: AID 
Family Planning Grants/Mexico City Policy,'' dated January 22, 1993, and 
I direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development to reinstate in full all of the requirements of the Mexico 
City Policy in effect on January 19, 1993.
                                                George W. Bush

Note: An original was not available for verification of the content of 
this memorandum.