How ‘abstinence’ is pushing up the abortion rate.
‘We should be talking about sex!’ said one exasperated family planning promoter from Vietnam. She was dismayed at how arcane the discussion at the population scientists’ conference had been getting. ‘Population is sex action!’ she insisted. ‘It’s about man and woman having sex!’
Or not having it – as the Bush Administration, the Vatican and other ‘abstinence’ ideologues prefer.
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