'Family planning is one of the most powerful tools we have for achieving sustainable development and a sustainable population. We undermine it at our own peril.'
to its sustainable development goals. But with population and climate change reaching critical levels, we need to do more to promote family planning and empower women and girls to use it.
Until now, family planning has been viewed as a question of parental autonomy. But it’s more than that. It’s a way of, assuring they have a baseline level of ecological and social resources. Failure to do this has helped precipitate the climate crisis, fueling population growth, especially in wealthy nations, that far exceeds the planet’s capacity to absorb humans’ climate impacts.
Seeing the decision of how many or how few children to have solely as a matter of parental autonomy has. It’s the product of “soft law” agreements between developed nations which are focused on GDP growth. It also assumes that a child’s economic position is simply the luck of the draw. But there is clear evidence that family planning choices and birth circumstancesThat’s why we need to connect empowering women and promoting women’s autonomy with child equity into the future. Development aid should be distributed to ensure that birth and developmental equity isThere is clear evidence that family planning choices and birth circumstances dictate a child’s economic prospects throughout life.
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