that are not able to be active or to be productive—that will really have an impact in terms of the capacity of families to transform their lives and leave the cycle of poverty.” So far, Guzman hasn’t seen Latin American governments make a serious commitment to widening access to family planning resources as part of their emergency Zika response. Calls to defer pregnancy are reductive unless they’re accompanied by an emphasis on women’s rights and needs, he argued. Without that emphasis, they’re also unlikely to be widely heeded.
14 Population Connection — June 2016