BLOG: Is Consensus Possible on Birth Control?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Nicholas Kristof wrote a column pointing to high desired family size in countries he was visiting in Africa, which you can read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion
Below is his blog on this subject.
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BLOG: Is Consensus Possible on Birth Control?
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Source: The New York Times (U.S.)
Author: NICHOLAS KRISTOF
My column today is about the need for birth control as a key to fighting poverty. In short: let’s make contraception as available as sex. Here are a few extra thoughts I didn’t have space to address.
First, all the numbers on a subject like this are dubious. The U.N. or research groups put out nice reports with figures for all kinds of things, and I sometimes worry that they imply a false precision. The truth is we have very little idea of some of these numbers. For example, the WHO studies have suggested that well over half a million women die each year from pregnancy complications, while a new Lancet study put the number at about 350,000. We don’t know which is right, because nobody really keeps track of women who die in poor parts of the world.
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