CNS News conflated family planning funding with abortion "gag rule" to attack Bush critic

SUMMARY: A Cybercast News Service article falsely reported that Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, a retired Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., called the Mexico City Policy -- a Reagan-era rule, reinstated by President Bush, that prohibits U.S. funding of international groups that provide abortion services -- a "disgrace." In fact, Dixon was referring to Bush's proposed cuts in financing for international family planning programs.

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