Having also worked with large organisations who create these sorts of reports, I think @cindarellasbelly has a point about the sheer incompetence of the people** who write and edit them.
HOWEVER, that doesn't change the fact that whoever wrote that line and everyone who read it still has this deep seated misogyny about how women who might possibly or even have the potential ability to get pregnant need to be controlled and "protected". It's appalling.
Also, as other PP have said, it feels like the tip of the iceberg - whether it's being done consciously or unconsciously, women's freedoms feel like they're going backward, not forward.
** I was once the last person to review a huge piece of research a client had commissioned at a cost of £25k. It had gone through at least three business line heads of a global organisation. I was only involved because they wanted to make a big splash and I was in charge of the press release/press strategy. I read that damn thing 3 times in case I was missing something and then had to get on a call and point out that 1. there were no actual findings in the report 2. 2/3 of the report was a history of this type of business (that could have been written by anyone) and 3. the only actual statement the report made was to suggest that the people the client was targeting were all, basically, dishonest. It's SHOCKING how often this happens.