After the near total failure of the Bush administration?s faith based initiative in the Senate (see the last Watcher), House Republicans managed a small victory with a $15 billion bill to help stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. Two religious amendments were included in the bill, which passed on May 1. The first would require one third of the money to be used to promote abstinence (a favorite cause of the religious right). The second provision would permit religious organizations that receive funding under the program to reject AIDS prevention strategies that they find objectionable (such as instruction in the use of condoms). Giving federally-funded religious groups free reign to allow dogma to influence service delivery (in the above example, by automatically rejecting a crucial AIDS control method) is one of the primary objections to the administration?s domestic faith-based initiative. This adds to an environment of conservative-religious bias in international sexual health issues. Soon after taking office, Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy that was in effect during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies. This policy forbids any international family planning organization that receives federal funds from talking about abortion, counseling women on abortion, providing abortions, and advocating for changes in abortion law, even with their own private funds.