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Article: The Fruits of Global Family Planning
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- The Washington Post
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- January 31, 1997
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Magaly Marques runs nine family planning clinics in Bolivia,
the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. On Wednesday,
she was in Washington to join international businessman and
philanthropist David Rockefeller in an effort to refocus the debate
over Congress's 87 percent cut in international family planning
programs onto what matters: the impoverished women, men and children
who are being most severely affected.
In 10 years, she said at a news conference, maternal
mortality in Bolivia dropped from 416 to 390 deaths per 100,000
women and fertility rates dropped from 6.4 children to 4.8, thanks
to family planning programs. In 1996, the first year U.S. funds
started to dry ...