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Sexual and Reproductive Rights: exercising citizenship. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).
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Women's Health Collection
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January 1, 2003
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"Because 'you can't talk about that,' our societies don't discuss sexuality openly and democratically; because 'you can't do that,' illegal abortions cause illness and death; because 'you can't touch that,' love and pleasure are prohibited. Poverty is not just material; sexual repression and lack of control over reproduction also cause human misery. We are citizens; we can decide our nations' destiny. So why shouldn't we decide the destiny of our own bodies?"
This quotation from the call for action of the Campaign for the Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights impels us to reopen our discussion of a challenging and difficult topic. This issue ...
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