Great news reported on the front page of today’s Globe and Mail:
The Conservative government has offered an explanation for why it will exclude contraception from its initiative to improve the health of mothers in poor countries: Birth Control doesn’t fit with saving lives.
In no uncertain terms, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon yesterday ruled out any kind of family-planning programs being included in Canada’s “signature” initiative at June’s G8 summit – a strategy to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries.
This is a strong commitment to good policy and the Conservative government should be praised for not capitulating to pressure from pro-abortion activists and their allies in the Liberals and NDP to accept “reproductive rights” as a component of “maternal health.”
You can read our extended coverage of this issue in our March cover story, “The politics of maternal health and child mortality.”
