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Maternal, child health: bureaucrats bolster Liberals’ family-planning focus
By Chelsea Nash May. 18, 2016
Family planning and access to reproductive health services and rights are needed to round out the initiative, a departmental evaluation says.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured in February, told a Senate committee last week her government plans to cover 'a full range of services,' including 'sex education for teens, family planning, the fight against sexual diseases, safe deliveries, and safe abortion when it's appropriate.' The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
An internal departmental evaluation of the Harper government’s signature foreign-aid initiative appears to bolster the Liberal party’s decision to put more emphasis on family planning, including abortion services.
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