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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
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.
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.
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International family planning assistance and education is critical to women's health and equality -- essential you increase this funding.
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5:40 am PDT, Apr 30,
Steve Elliott, Washington
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What is more important than the family...war, entertainment...etc?
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I taught Human Sexuality and the Psychology of Women for five years in higher education -- you are condemning women to a life of subservience and ignorance if you block their ability to plan families, which has adverse repercussions for the entire society. You'll see this element in most "failed" states that are the object of so much concern.
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Paying for prevention is far less costly than trying to repair the ensuing problem.
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I am saddened that it is even necessary to write to you about this matter. There is no questiojn about the need for this funding. Obviously our use of the planet is far ahead of its capacity to sustain us. That in itself is enough reason to support international family planning. But there are more far-reaching human reasons. Without family planning the quality of life for our most needy citizens is lessened as the use of the planet escalates. Furthermore, the well being of mothers must be considered.
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Family planning assistance is not only "cost-efficient," as noted herein, but it also results in fewer abortions, more prosperous families, better social stability, and reduced demand upon the earth's resources. As we are learning from headlines in recent months, those resources -- energy, food, land, water -- are indeed finite. Accordingly, support of family planning, bilaterally and through the United Nations, is good for all of us, and I urge you to provide that support on my behalf.
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The inability of Women to plan, the number and spacing of their children leads to poverty, increased government spending, maternal and infant death.