Friday, November 16, 2012

Access to contraception a human right, would cut health costs, UN

According to the UN Population Fund’s annual report which was released in Geneva , access to contraception is a universal human right. This is apparently the first time that the report has explicitly stated that family planning is a human right. Interestingly, the report estimates that if 120 million more women had access to family planning services, three million fewer babies would die in their first year of life. Read more at: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/says+access+contraception+human+right+better+family+planning+would/7545835/story.html





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