Clinton, world leaders announce contraception deal for women in developing world at UN
Source: AP via Washington Post
UNITED NATIONS Former President Bill Clinton and other world leaders are announcing that prices for long-acting contraception will be halved for 27 million women in the developing world through a new partnership.
This is a very big deal, and it will play itself out over and over again in the lives of citizens who will be safe, who will have healthier families and who will live longer lives, Clinton said at the U.N. Wednesday, flanked by the leaders of Norway and Nigeria.
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With this deal, a coalition of the Norwegian, British, U.S. and Swedish governments, the Clinton Health Access Initiative and The Childrens Investment Fund Foundation will be able to purchase progestogen implants from Bayer at less than half price, in return for a 6-year commitment.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)And the Catholic Church isn't managing to stop this? Wonderful! Of course the US would try to stop it with a Republican administration.
montanacowboy
(6,115 posts)oh..I forgot - Ryan Rmoney are going to make contraception illegal for American Women
burnsei sensei
(1,820 posts)For every one of us.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)of their lives, as well. It's better for them, their families, the communities they live in and right on up to the top.
littlemissmartypants
(22,868 posts)highplainsdem. Women will save this planet from so many angles. I love it. Thank you. LMSP
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The Vatican and their henchmen in the cult of suffering and death will be up in arms about this. Too bad.