How US government restrictions on foreign aid for abortion services backfired SIEPR policy brief Miller, Grant, author. Bendavid, Eran, author. Brooks, Nina, author. Abortion, Legal Contraception Family Planning Services International Cooperation -- legislation & jurisprudence Key Takeaways. (1) The Mexico City Policy has led to increases in abortion in a range of sub-Saharan African countries. (2) Those findings are based on an analysis of contraception, pregnancy, and abortion trends across the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. (3) In countries that depend heavily on U.S. support for family planning and reproductive health programs, contraceptive use decreased 14 percent, pregnancies rose 12 percent, and abortions climbed 40 percent when the policy was in effect relative to countries less reliant on U.S. support. (4) The evidence suggests that the policy leads to a reduction in contraceptive use and increased pregnancies and abortions. Stanford, CA : Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), September 2019 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101772291-pdf 101772291 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101772291 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0