Tell World Leaders: Prioritize Sexual and Reproductive Rights!
In much of the world, women still don't receive the sexual and reproductive health care they want and need. And the consequences are dire.
Nearly 60 countries have stood up for sexual and reproductive health and rights, like family planning and safe, legal abortion. And as a key global partner, US leadership is needed to ensure that these rights are prioritized in the UN's post-2015 agenda, particularly in the areas of health, gender equality, poverty eradication, and education.
Join us in calling on the US Ambassador to the United Nations to encourage all world leaders to support a woman's right to make her own decisions about her own body.
Dear Samantha Power,
I'm calling on you to be a leading advocate for women's sexual and reproductive health and rights at the United Nations General Assembly. The post-2015 agenda must affirm a woman's right to make her own decisions about her body, her health, and her future. Despite signs of progress--like a 50% reduction in maternal deaths in the last 20 years--more attention is needed by governments to fulfill their obligations to women.
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In the last two decades, a million women and girls have died--and more than 100 million have suffered injuries--due to complications from unsafe abortions. And today, at least 200 million women worldwide want, but cannot access, contraception.
I urge you to be a leader in ensuring that women's sexual and reproductive health and rights – including family planning and safe, legal abortion - are not just present but prioritized in the post-2015 agenda, particularly in the areas of health, gender equality, poverty eradication, and education.
Thank you.
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