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Article: Sex, lies and Lithuania: a misinformation campaign by antichoice advocates threatens common sense health reforms.
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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LITHUANIA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF a debate over sexual education and the availability of legal abortion. Conservative groups, some funded by the US-based ultraconservative Catholic group Human Life International, have misrepresented every common-sense initiative to reform sexual and reproductive health services, to the possible detriment of Lithuanians' health.
The Family Planning and Sexual Health Association of Lithuania (FPSHA) is a nongovernmental organization promoting the health benefits of access to safe reproductive health and rights for Lithuanian families. It was founded in 1995, just after the Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and has more ...