{"id":194,"date":"2012-07-20T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T05:59:16","slug":"good-reads-on-the-global-family-planning-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/good-reads-on-the-global-family-planning-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Reads on the Global Family Planning Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read several great reviews of the July 11 Family Planning Summit. Some great reads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/highs-and-lows-at-the-london-family-planning-summit\/ukaids-london-summit-on-family-planning\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2044\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Rune Hellestad&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Melinda French Gates, co-chair and trustee of Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation attends the \\&quot;UKAID&#039;s London Summit on Family Planning\\&quot; at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England on July 11, 2012.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1341993243&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, All Rights Exclusive&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;122&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;UKAID&#039;s London Summit on Family Planning&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UKAID&#8217;s London Summit on Family Planning\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Melinda French Gates, co-chair and trustee of Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation attends the &#8220;UKAID&#8217;s London Summit on Family Planning&#8221; at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England on July 11, 2012.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-300x239.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-1024x817.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-155\" title=\"UKAID's London Summit on Family Planning\" src=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-600x479.jpg 600w, https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/245353-1024x817.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>1. The Morning After &#8211;\u00a0An Initial Assessment of the London Family Planning Summit: With a title like that, one has to expect a little sarcasm. A great read, this article by\u00a0Marge Berer, the editor of Reproductive Health Matters accounts for the good, the bad and the ugly (read as Melinda v. The Vatican; Melinda as the savior of the developing world; and David Cameron&#8217;s speech, which as Ms. Berer says, &#8220;stank of hypocrisy.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2012\/07\/16\/morning-after-beginnings-an-assessment-fp-summit\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2012\/07\/16\/morning-after-beginnings-an-assessment-fp-summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0Opening the gates to a better deal for women: Melinda Gates&#8217; stance for contraceptives has to be appreciated. Yet\u00a0as\u00a0Leslie Cannold\u00a0wonders,\u00a0can family planning be complete without discussions on safe abortions? Or worse still, does this diplomatic omission unfortunately help further anti-choice rumors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/opening-the-gates-to-a-better-deal-for-women-20120713-221gn.html#ixzz21AKuAIu0\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/opening-the-gates-to-a-better-deal-for-women-20120713-221gn.html#ixzz21AKuAIu0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Planning for Family Planning &#8211; Walking the Talk of the London Summit: In her review, Geeta Bandi-Philips voices her concerns. Will pharmaceutical companies charge too much for contraceptives? Will women&#8217;s rights be overlooked?<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/geeta-bandiphillips\/planning-for-family-plann_b_1681997.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/geeta-bandiphillips\/planning-for-family-plann_b_1681997.html?utm_hp_ref=tw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read several great reviews of the July 11 Family Planning Summit. Some great reads: 1. The Morning After &#8211;\u00a0An Initial Assessment of the London Family Planning Summit: With a title like that, one has to expect a little sarcasm. A great read, this article by\u00a0Marge Berer, the editor of Reproductive Health Matters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,293],"tags":[53,48,15],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-international-conferences","tag-contraception","tag-global-summit-on-family-planning","tag-safe-abortion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blog-featured-image-logo.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O7nG-38","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}