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Family Planning Can Improve Maternal And Child Health, Survival
Describing a maternal health program that promotes family planning in the rural village of Bweremana in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Michael Gerson writes in his Washington Post column that "[t]he very words 'family planning' light up the limbic centers of American politics." But "in places such as Bweremana, family planning is undeniably pro-life," Gerson says, noting that "[w]hen contraceptive prevalence is low, about 70 percent of all births involve serious risk. When prevalence is high, the figure is 35 percent."
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