• 35 million unintended pregnancies<br />• 11 million unsafe abortions<br />• 93,000 maternal deaths<br />• 272,000 genital mutilations of girls<br />• 8.3 million sexually transmitted infections (via one billion condoms)<br />• 54 million users of family planning<br />• 33.4 million adolescents, who received sexual and reproductive health services<br />• 8.2 million women and girls, who had midwives’ assistance with pregnancies and deliveries<br />• 39,200 women with fistulas<br />“If the U. N. Population Fund has less money, more impoverished women in Haiti will die,” said Holdie<br />Fleurilus, a nurse at Innovating Health International, which runs the cancer center I visited.<br />The birth control provided by the U. N. Population Fund averted more than 3.7 million abortions last year alone, health advocates say.<br />Yet a group of blundering men in the Trump administration posture as moral leaders, and the result is<br />that women in places like Haiti will suffer fistulas, prolapses and agonizing deaths in childbirth or from cervical cancer.<br />The U. N. Population Fund initially was oblivious, and in 1983 it stupidly gave a gold medal to the Chinese official overseeing forced abortions.
