October 11, 2008

Meddling with Women’s Reproductive Health | Our Bodies Our Blog

In the final months of George W. Bush’s second term, his administration advances a global effort to interfere with women’s reproductive health.

“In the latest instance, the U.S. Agency for International Development has told six African governments that they must stop giving U.S.-donated contraceptives — including condoms, birth control pills and intrauterine devices — to Marie Stopes International, a UK-based reproductive family planning organization that distributes contraceptives and operates health clinics in needy communities.

The reason? MSI works with the U.N. Population Fund in China, and the United States in 2002 cut all financing for the population fund because the administration claims, without basis, that the fund supports coercive abortion in China.”

W’s swan song.

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