Safeguarding women’s economic opportunity requires safeguarding reproductive choice and access to sexual, reproductive, and maternal health services.
When a woman is denied the ability to choose if and when to have a child, it sets in motion a ripple of self-reinforcing gender-based barriers that will likely impact her entire life. Gender-based disadvantages are reinforced by legal systems that prevent women from controlling their reproduction while turning a blind eye to the costs and realities that women face once they become pregnant and have children.
