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
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