St. Joseph Church at 30 Church Street, Laconia, NH 03246 US - UK announces ‘unprecedented focus’ on contraception, ‘safe’ abortion in aid to poor nations

Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has announced that the United Kingdom will “put family planning at the heart of its approach to women’s health in the developing world.”

The nation’s Department for International Development [DFID] “will now have an unprecedented focus on family planning, which will be hard-wired into all our country programs,” said Andrew Mitchell, secretary of state for international development.

“Key proposals for UK action,” according to a DFID press release, include “modern methods of family planning such as implants, injectables and IUDs” and “ensuring abortion services are safe.”

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• Mitchell: “New focus on family planning to reduce deaths in pregnancy and childbirth” (DFID)
• Family planning push for nations (BBC)
• Andrew Mitchell (Wikipedia)