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A Response to Critics of Family Planning Programs

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A Response to critics of Family Planning programs covering the following topics:

  1. Family planning programs have little or no effect on fertility.
  2. Fertility declines are underway everywhere, so the population problem has largely been solved and family planning programs are no longer needed
  3. The death toll of the AIDS epidemic makes family planning undesirable and unnecessary.
  4. Family planning programs are not cost-effective
  5. Family planning programs at best have made women the instruments of population control policies and at worst have been coercive
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Author(s): Bongaarts, J., Sinding, S.W
Published: 2009
Publisher: International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

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