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03.09.2015
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access to safe abortion and contraception: vital for young women globally, a priority for u.s. foreign assistance

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access to safe abortion and contraception: vital for young women globally, a priority for u.s. foreign assistance

the united states, as the world’s foreign assistance leader, must play a key role in safeguarding a comprehensive and integrated approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights for young women. this fact sheet outlines policy challenges that deny young women their sexual and reproductive rights and puts forth policy actions the u.s. government should take: expand family planning funding, repeal the damaging helms amendment, permanently repeal the mexico city policy (also called the global gag rule), and continue to work toward a progressive sexual and reproductive health agenda in platforms like the international conference on population and development and the united nations.

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