Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations,led a discussion last week about a report she co-authored that argues for increased funding for international family funding as a part of U.S. foreign policy. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. foreign policy should include increased U.S. taxpayer funding of birth control, a liberal think tank says.
The report, released by the Council on Foreign Relations, says increased funding for family planning programs would allow women to make “critical decisions” about the size of their families and the spacing of pregnancies – “better enabling them to be linchpins of positive change in their communities.”
“Women today are recognized as critical to reducing poverty, boosting economic growth and agricultural productivity, promoting environmental sustainability, and raising healthy and well-educated children – steps that are imperative to confronting a range of pressing foreign policy challenges around the globe,” the report says.
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