New US “Right” to Family Planning Policy Hurts Trafficked Women

Lisa Correnti and Wendy Wright at C-FAM Friday Fax: The same week U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton told a conference in Senegal that family planning is a “basic right,” the U. S. Congress was investigating the Obama administration’s rejection of a highly qualified group to receive a grant to help trafficking victims because it does not offer contraception and abortion. The grant was awarded instead to a group that “had no plan on how objectives would be met.”