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  • Title: Family planning saves lives, prevents abortion.
    Author: Shane B.
    Journal: Popul Today; 1997 Mar; 25(3):1-2. PubMed ID: 12347774.
    Abstract:
    Amid attempts by anti-abortionists to reinstate the Mexico City policy restricting US population and family planning financial assistance to agencies which do not provide abortion services, even with other funds, the US Congress, in 1996, cut funds for international family planning programs by 35% and froze funding for 5-9 months under a complex compromise. Some population organizations issued reports on the benefits of family planning programs overseas just as Congress prepared to vote on whether to release fiscal 1997 international family planning funds in March. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) released the revised and expanded third edition of Family Planning Saves Lives, which explores how family planning prevents maternal and child mortality; a new Rockefeller Foundation report described the success of family planning programs since the 1960s and charged the US government with backing away from its 30-year commitment; and a US Agency for International Development study examined family planning's role in preventing abortion.
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