Unmet need for family planning

Definition: The percent with an unmet need for family planning is the number of women with unmet need for family planning expressed as a percentage of women of reproductive age who are married or in a union. Women with unmet need are those who are fecund and sexually active but are not using any method of contraception, and report not wanting any more children or wanting to delay the birth of their next child.

Calculation:

Based on: Westoff C.F and L. H. Ochoa (1991). Unmet Need and the Demand for Family Planning, DHS Comparative Studies No. 5. Calverton, Maryland: Macro International; and Westoff C.F. and Bankole A. (1995). Unmet need: 1990-1994. DHS Comparative Report No. 16, Calverton, Maryland: Macro International.

2011-1916=95

1916 – Margaret Sanger (pictured with her husband J. Noah Slee) established the United States' first family planningclinic in Brooklyn, New York.

Birth Control is not merely independent of, but even antagonistic to the Marxist dogma (Pivot of Civilization, 1922)


She was raised Catholic, married a Jewish man, and eventually joined her second husband, J. Noah Slee, in the Episcopalian Church. She had both of her sons baptized in the Episcopalian faith, a choice that was obviously her own because their father, William Sanger, was Jewish and, thus, would not have advocated for baptism.

Planned Parenthood Launches “Planned Parenthood Global”

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) announced today the launch of “Planned Parenthood Global,” a new phase of international programs.  For 40 years, PPFA has worked with partner organizations in developing countries, providing financial and technical support for women’s health care delivery and advocacy.

Changing the name of PPFA’s international division to Planned Parenthood Global signifies a new era for the program, concentrating on targeted partnerships and the development of pioneering models that can be replicated and scaled up by others.

“We are an incubator; seeking innovative solutions from our partners on the ground and helping those ideas grow into national advocacy and health care campaigns,” said Latanya Mapp Frett, PPFA’s vice president – Global.

PPFA’s international division began in 1971, as Family Planning International Assistance (FPIA), with a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to help improve reproductive health care delivery around the world.  In its early stages, the project operated in dozens of countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.  The groundbreaking FPIA program dissolved in the 1980s when President Reagan first imposed the “global gag rule” on U.S. foreign aid.  Since then, PPFA has scaled back its global programming, focusing on partnerships in select countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where the need is the greatest.  The partners of Planned Parenthood Global work in places often overlooked by local governments and international aid agencies, from urban slums to rural river communities.

Headquartered in New York City, Planned Parenthood Global currently supports partnerships in 10 countries — Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Sudan and South Sudan — and maintains regional offices in Miami and Nairobi, Kenya.  In Washington, Planned Parenthood Global monitors issues of U.S. foreign policy.

As part of the program launch, Planned Parenthood Global released Health Has No Borders, a brochure detailing global projects, partnerships and models.

For more information visit www.plannedparenthood.org/global 


actually it is not that global ;)

GOP Escalates Global War On Women

A Republican-led subcommittee opened a new front in the global war on women by adopting a spending bill that cuts funding for contraceptive services overseas by 25 percent, legislatively codifies the harmful Global Gag Rule restrictions, and prohibits a U.S. contribution to the lead UN family planning agency, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

As Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) said in her opening statement: “Whether you call yourself a Republican or a Democrat, pro-choice or pro-life, it is clear these unconscionable and unnecessarily divisive policies and cuts are counterproductive to our shared goals of reducing unwanted pregnancies, maternal and infant deaths, and abortions.”

During markup of a draft FY 2012 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, the subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), approved the draft bill without change or amendment. The bill funds foreign assistance programs, including international family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) activities, and the State Department for the coming fiscal year that begins on October 1st.

The draft bill contains funding cuts and policy riders that represent further anti-family planning salvos by the House Republican leadership, including the following lowlights:

Family Planning Funding: Statutory ceiling on funding for FP/RH programs at not more than $461 million from all accounts—a 25 percent cut from the FY 2011 enacted level of $615 million and a 40 percent cut below the President’s FY 2012 request of $769 million. The proposed 25 percent cut from current levels is deeper and disproportionate relative to most other development and health programs and comes on top of the 5 percent cut from the FY 2010 high-water mark imposed on FP/RH programs during this fiscal year.

The Guttmacher Institute estimates that the proposed $154 million funding cut would have the following impact if adopted:

• 9.4 million fewer women and couples receiving contraceptive services
• almost 3 million more unintended pregnancies
• 1.3 million more abortions (mostly unsafe)
• 1.3 million more unplanned births
• 7,700 more maternal deaths
• more than 35,000 more orphans

Source: www.populationaction.org

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From Gent, June 2011