International organizations like the UN Population Fund have begun stepping in by importing tens of thousands of contraceptives this year, but their work is still limited. It's an ordeal with increasingly international ramifications, as a growing number of pregnant women flee to countries like Colombia seeking care they cannot get in Venezuela.
During the late Hugo Chavez's presidency, Venezuela's government expanded services aimed at helping poor mothers by providing monthly cash transfers. Chavez lavished praise on women and hailed the so-called “revolutionary mothers” who would help promote his vision. The extent of Venezuela's birth control shortage and the impact on women is difficult to quantify in part because the government has not released information on key indicators like teenage pregnancy since 2012. According to those now dated figures, just over 23% of all births in Venezuela were to women under the age of 20.
After years of denying the existence of a humanitarian crisis, Maduro has recently begun allowing international aid. While a large part of the emergency assistance has gone toward food and medicine, a small portion is going toward reproductive health. In recent months, the mayor of one large Colombian city likened Venezuelans to “a poor baby factory” while a popular newspaper columnist implored migrants to “stop giving birth.”
Tell them to keep their legs closed if they don’t want to have babies at 14!!
YourMorning 'Forced' is a rather strong word in this situation. Unless they are forced into having sex, they are not forced into mother hood. They have a free option, abstaining until they can afford it JustMyOpinion
Anyone remember when news and opinions were different? A shortage of contraceptives doesn't 'force' anyone to get pregnant. By this logic every woman on earth was forced to get pregnant until very recently.
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