UN calls contraception access a "universal human right"

Access to contraception is a universal human right that could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in poor countries, the United Nations announced Wednesday in a new report.

It is the first time the U.N. Population Fund's annual report explicitly describes family planning as a human right.

"Family planning has a positive multiplier effect on development," Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the fund, said in a written statement. "Not only does the ability for a couple to choose when and how many children to have help lift nations out of poverty, but it is also one of the most effective means of empowering women. Women who use contraception are generally healthier, better educated, more empowered in their households and communities and more economically productive. Women's increased labor-force participation boosts nations' economies."

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The report effectively declares that legal, cultural and financial barriers to accessing contraception and other family planning measures are an infringement of women's rights.

It is not binding and has no legal effect on national laws.

The global body also says increasing funding for family planning by a further $4.1 billion could save $11.3 billion annually in health bills for mothers and newborns in poor countries.

The U.N. doesn't count abortion among the measures.

In the United States, women are eligible to get free access to contraception and contraceptive counseling as of Aug. 1, 2012, when the provision of President of Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act went into effect.

[ComputerHer]

The development of hormonal BC is what has allowed women to enter the workforce, and to not have to make a difficult decision between having a family and having a career/education. It has helped tremendously in our fight to achieve economic equality. We aren't taking "**** pills" so that we can **** around without consequences all day - we are married women, and we are monogamous women who have plans and dreams beyond simply spending our entire lives either single or as aquaria. This is a wonderful decision on the part of the UN, and I agree that access something that goes so far to grant equality for women across the globe should be a basic right.

[Physics_MSc]

Contraception is not a human right, period. The UN is an advocate of nanny state entitlements, the means of owning and controlling the people, of enslaving them to the state, of stripping them of both the obligations and the rights of being free.



Human rights are natural rights, not access to consumer products. Contraceptives are no more a natural right than are cars or fancy clothes or vacations in a resort.



Human rights are natural rights, like freedom of speech, freedom of expression, the right of free association, freedom of movement, and the right of ownership.



People thus have a right to CHOOSE to use contraceptives and they have a right to OWN contraceptives that they BOUGHT.



But they do not have a right to contraception. The UN statement clearly implies that someone else (i.e. the state, or in more precise terms everyone who pays for the state) is obliged to pay for and supply those contraceptives. That in itself is a violation of everyone else's basic human rights.



The UN and its regressive "progressivism" is an organization in need of being dismantled. Its goals undermines humanity and subverts our basic rights to serve its own nefarious goals of world governance by an un-elected technocracy of self-appointed and self-declared 'experts'.



When will we withdraw our member ship and funding from this corrupt body?