POL 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: United Nations Population Fund, Unintended Pregnancy, Security Dilemma
15 Apr 2017
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Globalization benefits cities, which are the conduits to integration into the global economy. Un estimates that 222 million women in the developing countries lack access to reliable, high-quality family planning services, information and supplies, putting them at risk for unintended pregnancy. Contraceptive use clearly is not the only factor in fertility. Improving educational and economic opportunities for women also tends to lower birth rates and contributes to economic development. Most people support the goals of family planning to reduce poverty, overcrowding, and other harmful effects of unrestrained population growth but many object to some of the means employed. Of the world"s population of women, 40 percent live in states in which abortion laws are very restrictive. Migration occurs for several reasons: economic (jobs), family reunification, marriage, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and human-made disasters such as famine, religious persecution, political repression, and war.
