Congratulations Guatemala
On telling the misogynists in the Catholic Church to go take a hike. Now do your people some real good and take away the tax exempt status of all religions.
from IPS
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 26 (IPS) – Social organisations in Guatemala are celebrating the entry into effect of a family planning law that will usher sex education into the country’s classrooms and facilitate access to birth control methods, as a victory in the fight against the country’s high birth and maternal and infant mortality rates.
The law, which was passed in 2005 but only went into force on Oct. 30, after facing a number of legal challenges from the Catholic Church, orders the Health Ministry, the Guatemalan Social Security Institute and other public and private health institutions to make modern contraceptives available.
It also requires the Education Ministry to include sex education in the primary school curriculum, with subjects like self-awareness, personal care, reproduction, sexual organs, pregnancy, responsible maternity and paternity, and sexually transmitted diseases.
“We are the Latin American country with the third highest level of maternal mortality and the highest population rate; we are more comparable to the countries of Africa than to Latin America,” Mirna Montenegro with the Observatory on Reproductive Health, a local NGO, told IPS.
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