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Der kanadische Außenminister Lawrence Cannon ließ verlauten, dass er Geburtenkontrolle kein adäquates Mittel findet um die Muttersterblichkeit in armen Ländern zu senken. Mit dieser Aussage hat sich klar gegen ein gemeinsames Vorgehen der G8-Staaten zu diesem Thema ausgesprochen.

The Conservative government has offered an explanation for why it will exclude contraception from its initiative to improve the health of mothers in poor countries: Birth control doesn‘t fit with saving lives.

„It does not deal in any way, shape or form with family planning. Indeed, the purpose of this is to be able to save lives,“ Mr. Cannon told the Foreign Affairs committee.

Jodi Jacobson´s kommentiert wie folgt auf ihrem Blog.

Nearly 600,000 women die each year due to complications of pregnancy, labor, childbirth or unsafe abortion. Family planning is the first and most critical prevention intervention. Programs to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity that do not include family planning will be as effective as plans to reduce motor vehicle mortality by abolishing seat belts, to reduce diabetes by force-feeding corn syrup to diabetics, and reduce dental decay by forbidding the sale of toothpaste.

Such programs will be about as successful in reducing maternal deaths--the leading cause of death among poor women ages 15 to 49 in most countries worldwide--as the no-condoms-for-youth policies and the abstinence-only-until-marriage programs of the Bush administration were in stopping the spread of HIV among women and girls in Africa. Which is to say: A stupendous failure.