Abort mission: Ronald Reagan's miniseries may have bombed, but his global gag rule, vastly expanded by the Bush administration, is still spreading misery.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by Wildman, Sarah
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THE TELEVISION LEGACY OF THE REAGAN administration has finally aired, on Showtime rather than CBS, bringing its screechy tales of 1980s conservatism only to a small, paying audience of devotees to kitsch.
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The miniseries was blasted by conservatives for, among other things, supposedly exaggerating Ronald Reagan's blithe obliviousness to the AIDS crisis. But, in fact, it's hard to overstate the impact of the president's policy on the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is burning a hole in the developing world today. Reagan's global family-planning policy--called the "global gag ...
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