POPULATION POLICIES

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• Publication Date: June 18, 1984
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The New York Times, Monday, 18 June 1984
I :Aid iied toAbortion
? 'the United Nations Fuhd for Population
ArdesAssertReagan Activities and to a number of private
organizations.
Is Determined to End The eight-page draft paper, which
the National Security Council sent out
By PHIL GALLEY
Sp1ddt0Tb?NswYa4 Ttmr
WASHINGTON, June 17-- President
Reagan is determined to change United
States policy to eliminate aid to inter.
national population control programs
that practice or advocate abortion,
White House officials said today.
The proposal, outlined In a draft
paper being circulated within the Ad-
ministration, comes when many devel-
oping countries are Intensifying family
planning efforts to ease social and eco.
nomic stress.
Some of President Reagan's aides
say the proposal Is partly motivated by
election-year politics, but they also say
It is aimed strictly at abortion and not
other family planning measures.
The United States, according to staff
members of the Population Crisis Com.
mittee, contributes $20 million annu-
ally to international population control
Programs, about half of the total inter-
national expenditure in this area. They
estimate that the proposal, If approved
by President Reagan and converted
into new regulations, would cost these
programs $100 million in United States
assistance.
Specifically. the staff members say,
the new policy would eliminate aid to
May 30 for review by Government
agencies, is the working draft of a
statement that the United States is
preparing for delivery at a United Na-
tions Conference on Population in Mex-
ico City scheduled for August. Former
Senator James L. Buckley of New
York, who shares President Reagan's
opposition to abortion, has been asked
by the White House to deliver the paper
at the conference.
A high-level White House official said
today that the draft statement is likely
to be revised, but he added that "the
final statement will reflect this Admin-
istration's feelings on population con-
trol.-The proposal, which has come under
attack from some members of Con-
gress and population control groups
who see it as a reversal of a long-stand-
ing policy, blames "governmental con-
trol of economies" in developing coun-
tries and "anti-intellectualism" in the
Western world for the problems associ.
ated with overpopulation. It also says
that population growth could be an eco-
nomic asset in some countries if "op-
pressive economic policies" were re-
placed by a free-market system. .
"The United Nations Declaration of
the Rights of the Child (1959) calls for
legal protection for children before as
well as after birth," the draft docu-
ment says, "and the United States ac-
cordingly does not consider abortion an
acceptable element of family planning
programs and will not contribute to
those of which it is a part.
"Nor will it any longer contribute di-
rectly or indirectly to family planning
programs funded by governments or
private organizations that advocate
abortion as an instrument of population
control."
Existing rules ban the use of Ameri-
can funds to pay for abortions by gov-
ernments and private organizations.
Under the new policy, even programs
that use private donations or money
from other governments to pay for
abortions would lose United States
assistance.
Congressional approval is not needed
for the policy change. Once President
Reagan formally approves the new
policy, the State Department and other
agencies would have to revise their
rules to reflect the change.
Congress could block the policy revi-
sion by passing specific legislation, but
given its reluctance to have another de-
bate on abortion in an election year, it
does not appear likely to do so.
Baker a Driving Force
The high-level White House official
said James A. Baker 3d, the White
House chief of staff, was a major force
behind the proposed policy change. For
too long, this official said, the State De-
partment and other Government agen-
cies had followed the views of the popu-
lation control lobby and, he added, Mr.
Baker had decided "there was need to
get a handle on it."
The official said President Reagan
could suffer "political damage" if offi-
cial policy was out of line with his per-
sonal views on abortion, or, worse, if it
appeared that "he wasn't in control."
He added: "The policy statement
was a means of asserting White House
policy control over this. That's what
Baker felt was important."
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-Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
A White House position paper putting the
United States on record that big government, not
big farnil:es, causes Third World poverty is under '
furious assault by the population control lobby.
On May 30, the National Security Council staff
forwarded for intragovernmental review a remark-
able "draft statement" of U.S. policy for the Inter-
national Population Conference- in Mexico City
Aug. 6-13. Departing from past policy, it contends
the United States "does not consider abortion an
acceptable element of family planning programs
and will not contribute to those of which it is
part." Nor will this country "any longer" help fi-
nance foreign programs "that advocate abortion as
an instrument of population control."
A copy was promptly leaked by outraged
State Department officials to the population
control lobby. Two former senators deeply in-
volved in that movement-Republican Robert
Taxi Jr. and Democrat Joseph Tydings-sent a
pa