U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeohas said the United States will reduce the amount of moneyit gives to the Organization of American States, or OAS.The reduction is tied to existing rulesthat bar the United States from providing moneyfor medical operations to end pregnanciesor efforts to support abortions.The restrictions now extend to foreign groupsthat provide money to other organizationsthat promote or provide abortions.Pompeo said at least two agencies connected to the OASappear to be promoting abortion availabilityin the Western Hemisphere.Pompeo said the administration of President Donald Trumpis able to meet "critical global health goals,including providing health care for womenwhile refusing to subsidize the killing of unborn babies."The policy requires that foreign nongovernmental organizationsthat receive family-planning money from the United Statesmust show that they do not provide or support abortions.The policy is sometimes called the "Mexico City Policy"after the place where it was first announced in the 1980s,under the presidency of Ronald Reagan.Later presidents canceled or did not follow the policy.The Trump administration put the policy in place again in 2017.Critics call the policy a "global gag rule."They say it prevents people from talking about abortionand hurts reproductive care.State Department spokesman Robert Palladinosaid the United States would cut about $210,000 dollarsfrom the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,an independent group within the OAS.Pompeo said the aim is for American taxpayer moneyto not be used to pay for abortions.Democratic lawmakers denounced the expansion to the policy.U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it "cruel" on Twitter.And Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic senator from New Hampshire,said the move was "dangerous" to the reproductive health of women.