The Importance Of Family Planning

In recent discussions of family planning, one controversial issue has been whether to send more contraception to poor countries or use other methods to help the women in more poverty areas. Family planning is the planning on when to have a child and the techniques used to follow that plan. Such techniques involve sex education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, preconception counseling and management, and infertility management. On the one hand, some people argue that sending contraception to women in other countries could help deal with family planning especially with young girls who aren’t ready to have a child. Others believe that giving out contraception would not help family planning because there are other

While using contraception things could go wrong and if these women are on birth control that would be the extra push that could save them from having a child when they are not ready. Lori M. Huhter explains why gender equality is so important as people get older. Huhter talks about how there should not be set roles in the house when it comes to working, Lori M. Huhter states “The "women in development" perspective argues that gender equality is indeed essential for development, since a country that discriminates against half of its population simply cannot utilize its full potential.” Huhter later states “The goal of gender equality, in turn, rests on a foundation built by improving female educational attainment, and not only because of improvements in literacy: education brings self-esteem, self-confidence, and problem-solving abilities, all of which enhance one 's potential as well as possible contributions to household, community, and society.” Even though I agree that women and males should learn more about gender equality, I do not think it has a great impact on women’s rights when it has to deal with contraception. Meanwhile, Margaret Sanger discusses how race is tied into family planning. Sanger argues that because back in the day the lower class was forced to work in factories and have a multiple amount of kids, it made a big impact to the world population. Now causing overpopulation. By sending over birth control to the lower class in these poor countries the over population rate would decrease and the lives of these people would be better. “If families could not choose the timing and the pacing of their children, she argued, then they could not reduce or eliminate the social conditions that fed into the cycles of poverty, disease, and neglect so readily apparent in tenements and slums in the inner