• 35 million unintended pregnancies
• 11 million unsafe abortions
• 93,000 maternal deaths
• 272,000 genital mutilations of girls
• 8.3 million sexually transmitted infections (via one billion condoms)
• 54 million users of family planning
• 33.4 million adolescents, who received sexual and reproductive health services
• 8.2 million women and girls, who had midwives’ assistance with pregnancies and deliveries
• 39,200 women with fistulas
“If the U. N. Population Fund has less money, more impoverished women in Haiti will die,” said Holdie
Fleurilus, a nurse at Innovating Health International, which runs the cancer center I visited.
The birth control provided by the U. N. Population Fund averted more than 3.7 million abortions last year alone, health advocates say.
Yet a group of blundering men in the Trump administration posture as moral leaders, and the result is
that women in places like Haiti will suffer fistulas, prolapses and agonizing deaths in childbirth or from cervical cancer.
The U. N. Population Fund initially was oblivious, and in 1983 it stupidly gave a gold medal to the Chinese official overseeing forced abortions.