How Did Ronald Reagan Have To Accomplish With The Mexico City Policy

This policy was first implemented in 1984. What do you think Ronald Reagan was hoping to accomplish with this policy? Two reasons that President Reagan could have implemented the Mexico City Policy would be that it ensured the United States would stay out of partnerships that could infringe upon local customs (for example, forced abortion), and could spur economic growth. According to an article by the National Review, President Reagan believed “people are the greatest assets.” At the same time in the United States, our economy was growing because of all our working people. Therefore, I believe his second overall goal with the Mexico City Policy was to help these developing countries grow by ensuring they would have people in the future to help the country grow itself, “many nations, population growth has been an essential element in economic progress. (Quote from the National Review- by
Instead of discouraging abortion, he made general contraception harder to access for women in rural areas that previously relied on organizations to provide their contraception and suddenly stopped being funded under the Mexico City Policy. This directly correlated with the sharp rise in the number of abortions when the policy was reinstated under president Bush. The time Bush took over as president was also an important growth time for Sub-Saharan African countries in terms of getting females education. More education led to higher contraception users and based on the two graphs, you cannot prove the policy being reinstated caused the higher number of contraceptives, but it is clear they did correlate. Therefore, President Reagan’s Mexico City Policy did not succeed in forcing developing countries to lower abortion numbers and take up pro-life ideals, nor can it be solely credited with the increased use of modern