Just wanted to share and see what people though of this new report by ActionAid on Women's choice and family planning it's been released to coincide with a global family planning summit in London next week. What's interesting, though not surprising, is its conclusion that it doesn't matter how many contraceptive pills or condoms are supplied to women across the globe, unless unequal power relations between men and women are tackled, many women won't ever have control over their bodies and their reproductive health.
The report focusses on choices available to women in developing countries but it made me cast my mind back to my younger days and a few times when I let men have sex without a condom even after I'd asked. Makes me want to shout at my younger self, "Kick the fucker out of your bed! March him out of the door! He's not worth it!" It's scary that as an educated, apparently confident, feminist woman, I still backed down to men on something so fundamental.
But at least I wasn't being coerced with violence nor did I get pregnant or contract HIV. The stories of some of the women in this report are quite different and far more impactful.
Have a read and let me know what you think.
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fuzzywigsmum · 04/07/2012 16:53
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