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Family Planning Spending Cuts Will Lead To 'More Unwanted' Pregnancies, 'Unsafe Abortions'
"Unwanted babies and unsafe abortion are major problems in the developing world, yet funding for contraception is limited because of attitudes to sex and abortion in donor countries," the Guardian's Sarah Boseley writes in her "Global Health Blog." She reflects on her time spent in Dakar, Senegal, last week for the 2nd International Conference on Family Planning, and writes that, "in francophone Africa ..., only 10 percent of women have access to what are called modern methods of family planning," such as hormonal contraceptive injections or pills.
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