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Invest in Women: Increase Funding for International Family Planning

Target: Members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Sponsored by: Pathfinder International

Family planning programs save lives. Yet millions of women around the world do not have access to critical reproductive health services like contraceptives, pregnancy and childbirth care, and HIV prevention programs. Each year, more than 500,000 women worldwide die during pregnancy or childbirth - and nearly of all these deaths could be prevented.

No medical intervention offers the breadth of potential benefits as family planning. When a woman has access to services that let her control her fertility and protect her health, new opportunities, including education and employment, may open up to her. Family planning programs thus have a "ripple effect" that changes the very fabric of families and communities.

Family planning programs are cost-efficient and highly successful, yet consistently under-funded, even as demand for these services rises quickly around the world.

You can help women have the reproductive health choices they need to protect themselves and their families. Please send a message to members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs today and support our call to increase U.S. funding for international family planning to $1 billion.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 5,000

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Dear Members of the House Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs,

I am writing to urge you to increase funding for international family planning assistance to a total of $1 billion in the Fiscal Year 2009 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. I also urge you to appropriate $63.5 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Family planning programs are critical for women's health and equality. Currently, more than 200 million women around the world desire to either delay or end childbearing, but do not have access to modern contraceptives. Each year, more than 500,000 women worldwide die during pregnancy or childbirth. Tragically, nearly of all these deaths could have been prevented. Women who can time their pregnancies have greater opportunities for education and employment, and can more actively contribute to their families' well-being.

Historically, family planning programs have been cost-efficient and highly successful. According to a study by UNFPA, every $1 invested in family planning could save up to $31 in government spending on education, food, health, housing, water and sewage services.

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We took action on “Invest in Women: Increase Funding for International Family Planning”

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5:24 pm PDT, Jul 14, Christofer Nicodemus, California

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5:21 pm PDT, Jul 14, Jonathan Sale, New York

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4:52 pm PDT, Jul 14, Scott Cooper, Oregon
Family Planning is one of the most important important Foreign Aid projects our Goverment undertakes or should undertake with a vigorous 1 Billion Dollar investment immediately! If we don't another, 500,000 women in poor countries will die during pregnancy or childbirth! We can prevent this needless and tragic result!

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4:21 pm PDT, Jul 14, Mary Lou Grolimond Olson, Florida

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2:31 pm PDT, Jul 14, Fred Caploe, California

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12:06 pm PDT, Jul 11, Ray Mendez, California

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9:57 am PDT, Jul 11, Roy Johnson, Michigan
Unplanned pregnancies stretch already thin resources in a number of areas even thinner. Family planning makes economic sense.

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9:00 pm PDT, Jul 10, Claudia Santillan, Nevada

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4:59 pm PDT, Jul 8, Judy Woods, Massachusetts
Every child a wanted child

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4:27 pm PDT, Jul 8, Jen Salome, Arizona

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2:34 pm PDT, Jul 8, Kaine Grant, New York

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1:31 pm PDT, Jul 8, Jennifer Green, Washington

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11:27 am PDT, Jul 8, Karla Phillips, Indiana
if they havebirth control then there would be less children born into poverty and disease, even though the parents know that they can suppport the kids, the still have them because the have no other alternative, excet abortions, wich are not easily accssesable

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8:48 am PDT, Jul 8, Veronica Lima, Oregon

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8:03 am PDT, Jul 8, Elaine Logan, Colorado

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