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LibLink: Lynne Featherstone: More action needed on reproductive rights for all

By NewsHound | Wed 9th April 2014 - 4:32 pm

This week, International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone is attending the UN Commission on Population and Development. She has written for the Huffington Post about how crucial it is to make sure that women have the choice about when to have children by having access to contraception, potentially saving 800 lives every day:

Globally there are 222million women who wish to space or delay the timing of births, but do not have access to modern forms of contraception. This has real and devastating consequences on their lives. In 2010, 800 women a day died from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth and in 2008 an estimated 8.7million young women aged 15 to 24 in developing countries resorted to unsafe abortions. All of this was preventable.

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Posted in LibLink | Also tagged equality, huffington post, international development and lynne featherstone | 1 Comment

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