Sentences with phrase «access to family planning»

Additionally, increasing access to family planning services can help women make decisions that are best for themselves and their families.

It believes it can cut this number by increasing access to family planning, addressing unsafe abortion and making birth safer by giving women access to skilled and well - equipped health workers.

From a very young age, my mother taught me about the importance of access to family planning, including safe and legal abortion.

This is unprecedented for a program that has helped expand access to family planning services in countries with low incomes for over 50 years and currently operates in nearly 40 countries.

We are getting down to the wire — make your voice heard and urge your senator to protect access to family planning and women's health care!

> And we will be just 10 billion in this world, if the poorest people get out of poverty, their children survive, they get access to family planning.

I feel very fortunate to be able to work toward improving access to family planning every day.

In short, to date, no research has found that cuts in confidential access to family planning lead to a significant increase in either abortion or pregnancy rates.

The researchers will send periodic surveys to women enrolled during the next three years to track the effect of universal access to family planning influences educational attainment, financial mobility, and sexual satisfaction.

So it was not surprising to see no mention of expanding access to family planning as a strategy for reducing stresses from climate extremes, or climate change, in such regions.

An estimated 215 million women in the developing world do not have access to the family planning resources they need.

Some abortion opponents, however, take issue with the argument that the policy denies women access to family planning services.

The first is for governments to address the population threat head - on by ensuring that all women have access to family planning services and by providing education for girls throughout the region.

The reason for this success, researchers believe, is that by 1962 more than 80 percent of all young women could read and write: a factor that increased access to family planning.

From its inception, Planned Parenthood worked for access to family planning for all women — regardless of economic status.

Politicians are trying to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for Missourians insured through Medicaid.

Politicians are attempting to use HB 2010 and HB 2011 — the budgets for the Dept. of Health and Senior Services and the Dept. of Social Services — to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for patients insured through MO HealthNet, Missouri's Medicaid program.

There are more than 220 million women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant, but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.

And of course there's the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, could be blunted without a single draconian measure, many experts say, simply by providing access to family planning for millions of women who already want it, but can't get it — whether or not someone gets a carbon credit in the process.

We're calling for more rights and greater access to family planning services for women living throughout the world so they can choose for themselves how many children to have and when to have them.

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

If you want to learn more, I suggest paying less attention to activist newsletters and instead read an invaluable discussion of the research and rhetoric on access to family planning accompanying «Is there an «unmet need» for birth control,» a 2011 blog post by Berk Ozler, a World Bank development economist.

The final budget for Title X, the nation's family planning program, will be $ 299.9 million dollars this year, and will provide millions of women and families access to family planning and prevention services.

Without access to family planning and women's health care providers — including Planned Parenthood health centers — many patients will have nowhere to go for care.

These changes bring to nine the number of states that restrict access to family planning funds (see State Family Planning Funding Restrictions).

With the 1970 bipartisan passage of the Title X program, President Richard Nixon stated «no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition.»

By allowing women around the world access to family planning tools, Gates says communities would see increased health, economic development and gender equality.

Take the Gillick ruling: the Government was forced to allow parents to know when their young people got access to family planning clinics, and we saw a decrease in family planning attendance for under sixteens.

«In our experience as a leading provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare in many countries around the world, we know that women not only need but desperately want access to family planning services and information.

A rapid voluntary reduction in fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning, higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population at around eight billion by 2050.

To relieve these pressures on the planet, the academies call for a range of social and technological measures, including wider access to family planning, health care and education, an end to wasteful consumption, and the introduction of «green'technologies.

[Many liberals and some conservatives I know will be frustrated by the lack of acknowledgement that population matters — and particularly that boosting access to family planning is an important way to cut social vulnerability to climate (and other) hazards in the world's poorest regions.

One was a recent talk by Hans Rosling, a public health expert at the Karolinska Institute, explaining how family size shrinks when health care and access to family planning come to poor countries.

Population growth can be curbed most effectively through access to family planning and education of girls (which, notably, have many other benefits as well).

Figure 5: Banning Planned Parenthood as a Medical Provider Could Limit Access to Family Planning Services for Many Low - Income Women

«Around the world, we've made strides to bring down maternal mortality and prevent unintended pregnancy, and we know that reducing access to family planning will reverse those gains and put women's lives at risk.

«Access to family planning promotes healthy families, in which children are wanted and loved.

9 / 7 / 17Planned Parenthood Applauds Bipartisan Senate Committee Effort to Protect Access to Family Planning Programs in the U.S. and Globally

Urge him to reject the politically motivated effort to block access to family planning services by vetoing House budget bills 10 and 11.

By weakening and eliminating these scourges — along with expanding access to family planning information and services — global population will stabilize and start a gradual decline sooner rather than later.

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

A longtime advocate for reproductive rights and health, Turner has used her public position and fame to publicize the need for greater access to family planning services and to advocate for reproductive rights.

Reacting to a newly released Guttmacher Institute ranking of state - level efforts to ensure access to family planning, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today called on state legislators to adopt policies that support family planning services and ensure access to contraception.

The importance of sustaining a decline in fertility by increasing access to family planning was stressed in the report summary:

Real progress will require tackling discrimination against women, increasing resources to strengthen health systems to ensure universal access to care, including through skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care, and expanding access to family planning.

Politicians are attempting to use the budget to cut access to family planning care, including birth control and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment for patients insured through MO HealthNet, Missouri's Medicaid program.

I'm not saying that rich countries should demand that Maldives improve access to family planning.

Fighting the attack on access to family planning and women's health care; state senators compare pregnant people to giraffes; GOV 101 and PPGP Conference highlights!