This text below presents and critiques the claims they make against this program. This strategy reflects the difficulty of making a persuasive case against family planning assistance. This measure would prevent any funding from being awarded to several major international providers of family planning services, on the theoretical excuse that these grantees would entangle US funds with abortion. Opponents of comprehensive reproductive health services are attempting to undermine those leading providers of family planning services that also advocate legal abortion. Contraception and abortion are two separate issues and should be argued on their own facts and merits.
Common sense leads most people to that conclusion, and so does the research.
The only question is how quickly lower levels of abortion are attained. That question pertains because there are situations where both contraceptive prevalence and abortion rates rise, creating confusion about cause and effect. In reality, what this phenomenon reflects is the strong desire for smaller families, which then motivates people to seek out all available means to achieve their desired family sized. As preventive family planning programs become better established in the culture, and as couples begin to shift to more effective contraceptive methods, recourse to abortion declines. In the Soviet Union, abortion was legal while contraceptives were unavailable.