What Will the Future (of Reproductive Health and Rights) Look Like?

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What Will the Future (of Reproductive Health and Rights) Look Like?

By Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

December 17, 2008 - 8:00am

Published under: Barack Obama | live blog

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On Wednesday, December 17, reproductive health experts Marilyn Keefe of the National Partnership for Women & Families, William Smith of SIECUS, Heather Boonstra of Guttmacher Institute, Cristina Page of BirthControlWatch.org, and RH Reality Check’s own Kay Steiger came together with many loyal RH Reality Check readers for a live discussion about the future of sexual and reproductive health policy.

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Reproductive Health and the Environment

Reproductive health and family planning can be framed as positive elements of a total policy package that is environmentally friendly.
Family planning has long been acknowledged as essential to environmental health; we need to make the link apparent, as a kind of reminder, and in a positive way.
This will go a long way to override those concerns of "conscience."

Submitted by scotlogan on December 17, 2008 - 2:31pm.

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Reproductive Health and the Environment II

To clarify my last comment: No problem currently facing us is without a dimension composed of population pressures.

The way to approach the problem humanely is with a full range of family-planning services.

Submitted by scotlogan on December 17, 2008 - 2:36pm.

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