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This paper discusses the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) worldwide contribution in the field of family planning and examines the political challenges the organization faces in the US and the rest of the world. The author argues that USAID has played a dominant role among donors as the source of money, information and ideas about family planning in the developing world and that it has many accomplishments to its credit. The paper concludes that the benefits of USAID’s efforts to improve access to family planning have been diminished by the distractions of politics and dogma.