Can we really afford this?

Social conservatives expect Obama, at some early point, to reverse an order Bush signed in 2001 blocking U.S. funding of international family planning groups that provide abortion or abortion counseling. Ronald Reagan instituted the policy. Clinton signed an executive order overturning it on January 22, 1993, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. And George W. Bush reinstated the “global gag rule” as one of his earliest acts