Nigerian Women Defy ‘Global Gag Rule’ and Opt for Family Planning Services
By Global Information Network
Published July 11, 2017

(GIN) – The “global gag rule” which denies women contraception and family planning counseling may have met its match in Nigeria’s northern region where women are proactively avoiding unwanted pregnancies with contraceptive pills dispensed by a major charity.

Women in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency, have embraced the birth control pill campaign launched by the International Rescue Committee in the Bakassi camp.

Continued at source: Los Angeles Sentinel: https://lasentinel.net/nigerian-women-defy-global-gag-rule-and-opt-for-family-planning-services.html