Are they taking the pill, or using another method of family planning?
The Helms amendment, a 43-year-old law, stipulates that abortions cannot be funded as a method of family planning.
The House bill would ban use of Federal funds for any program involving abortion as a method of family planning.
"We certainly approve of any effort by the administration to make it clear that abortion is not an acceptable method of family planning," Mr. Johnson said.
On Bush's first workday, he acted to limit federal funding of non-governmental organizations that performed or actively supported abortion as a method of family planning overseas.
Last year, Mr. Bush restored a policy that bans federal aid to international organizations that perform or "actively promote abortion as a method of family planning".
They also argued that the Cairo agreement already contains language stating, "In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning".
It has prohibited the use of American money to support overseas family planning groups that provide abortions or promote abortion as a method of family planning.
Research by the United Nations Population Fund found that in sub-Saharan Africa, almost half of women were using no method of family planning.
Abortion was apparently a common and socially accepted method of family limitation in the Greco-Roman world.
On another occasion, a member of the committee suggested that someone could come in to talk to the upper school pupils about the rhythm method of family planning.
