Family planning

especially regarding family planning. Once contraceptives were introduced to families in Latin America in the early 1960s, a lot of the ideas the Catholic church had against family planning were proved wrong which led to families not taking their ideas into consideration. The Chilean government introduced a family planning organization similar to PROFAMILIA that had also partnered up with International Planned Parenthood named The Chilean Association for the Protection of the Family (APROFA). International

Mexico City Policy Current Event The Mexico City Policy, also known by opponents as “The Global Gag Rule”, was originally introduced as an executive order by president Ronald Reagan in 1984. The policy was made to withhold U.S. family planning, funding and assistance from foreign NGOs (non-profits) that include reproductive health organizations and included private hospitals and clinics that perform or publicize abortions. “In countries where abortion is permitted, the policy prohibits health

If a family loses a family member due to inadequate health care, an unsafe abortion, it can affect the family’s financial stability if she was a breadwinner, if there is no one else to care for children, and/or if the family is burdened with health care or funeral costs (Harman, 2016, p.526). If the lack of family planning options, such as birth control, results in more children than a family can support, not only do their finances suffer, but their

care for health campaign was the first family planning promotion to be done in Russia and it helped increase the use of modern contraceptives by 12%. It was part of the women´s reproductive health program (WRHP) which involved training of health care providers, advocacy and research. This intervention resulted in increase in family planning counselling for women, longer continuation rates of contraceptives and increase in clinic attendance for family planning in the intervention areas. This program

Considerable numbers of females are at threat of repetitive pregnancy with grave health and social burdens to the mothers and their babies. The main focus in this study was the assessment of knowledge and performance of females attending the family health unit towards the fertility regulating methods, cautilizes of approval and refusal towards these methods, and identifying the most common social obstacles. So we prepared suggestions for solving these problems and encourage female to utilize

Rust v. Sullivan In May of 1991, America experienced the Supreme Court make a five justice majority decision to uphold the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) regulations on prohibiting recipients of Title X funds from counseling patients regarding abortion, finding that this condition did not violate the recipients ' First Amendment right to freedom of speech (Stan L. Rev. 1). Prior to Rust v. Sullivan, Roe v. Wade stood as the foundational case for all abortion cases to come. Roe v

Perhaps one of the most pressing issues faced by women in Many African countries today are the many barriers preventing them from having access to sexual health and family planning services. “The World Health Organization (WHO) defines family planning as “the ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of involuntary infertility” (Tessema

Planned Parenthood a program that has been servicing communities for over 100 years by providing sexual health care and preventative services for women and men is going to be possibly defunded by the government according to “the Grand Old Party”, or Republican Party. In an order to avoid government a shutdown in efforts to save federal funding, the government will defund Planned Parenthood for one year to create financial savings. According to the Washington Post, “Planned Parenthood receives about

child policy was completely unnecessary. Well the biggest drop in China’s birth rate happened before the one child policy. IN 1970 , the government started running a propaganda campaign to encourage people to get married later and have fewer children. Family size dropped by half in just 10 years. Researchers now think that the birth rate would have continued to drop naturally as China’s economy improved. That was even confirmed by a secret government experiment. So are officials changing the one-child

6. Ethiopia Throughout our lives we tend to focus in the people that surround us, people in our neighborhood, city and country. We might know a few facts about different countries, but 90% of the information that we think we know is from movies, television, school, books, etc; it means that we are probably very far away from the reality. We live in a bubble were we think that everyone else has a life not very different from ours. You might hear about hunger, diseases or political issues in other