LONDON (AP) — The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says laws and policies that restrict access to birth control services must be repealed amid the explosive outbreak of the Zika virus in the Americas, which has been linked to an increase in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads.
In a statement issued on Friday, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the advice of some governments to women to delay getting pregnant “ignores the reality” that many women have little control over the circumstances in which that happens.
To date, the mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 20 countries in the Americas, including some where sexual violence is rampant, Al Hussein said. He called for laws restricting access to sexual and reproductive health services to be urgently reviewed.
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It’s kind of sad that it takes a disfiguring virus to get someone to suggest maybe someone ought to spark a review. Birth control should be considered a basic human right. Governments should be considered failures or worse, everywhere it’s not readily available.
Oh boy, here it comes.
Republicans, anti-choicers, alleged Christians and other RW’ers will claim this is all a pro-choice, Democratic, Obama-inspired conspiracy to prevent the closing of PP sites, allow all forms and times of abortion and generally reduce the USA down to Sodom & Gomorrah levels!
Watch for it in 3-2-1…
Hell, they do that when speaking against the HPV vaccine.
Please proceed, “pro-lifers.”
Who has the stomach for checking their sites? Not I.
Edit: was ‘brave’ enough to find this, ha ha. http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2016/02/03/the-zika-conspiracies-have-begun/