Want to Empower Women Worldwide? Give Them Access to Contraceptives! Melinda Gates shares her thoughts why she advocates for over 225 million women around the globe who still lack access to modern contraceptives.
I totally agree with her! Every woman should have access to safe and secure contraceptives and education about family planning.
Unfortunately this is not everywhere the case. But many women in developing countries also want to have less children, they also want to de…cide when to have a child, and want to plan their life. Birth control needs to be put back on the agenda. It was a pity that poor countries did not get more help with this decades ago, I do remember that we even discussed this topic at school, back then we had „only“ 5 billion people on our planet (now we are already 7.5 billion).
By giving access to contraceptives to all who want to plan their children, we could avoid at least 80 to 100 million unwanted pregnancies per year.
For me, contraceptives made it possible to finish college and devote nearly a decade to a career in tech I loved before starting my family. For this teacher in …rural India, they’ll make it possible for her to return to work after her daughter starts school so that her family will have the second income it needs to break the cycle of poverty.
Every woman, no matter where she lives, deserves the same opportunity to decide for herself whether and when to get pregnant, so she can take charge of her life and follow her dreams.
