Engelman's Nine Population Strategies To Stop Short Of 9 Billion
The strategies that were laid out in the chapter were: assuring universal access to a range of safe and effective contraceptive options for both sexes, guarantee education through secondary school for all, with particular focus on girls, eradicate gender bias from law, economic opportunity, health and culture, offer age-appropriate sexuality education for all students, end all policies that reward parents financially based on the number of their children, integrate teaching about population, environment, and …show more content…
Engelman talks about eradicating gender bias in the law, economy, health and in culture. I do agree that everyone is equal and that no sex is better. However, I really do not see how removing this bias will prevent pregnancy, since sex in most countries is not talked about openly and it is between the partner and not with the government. The government should allow all birth control to be covered under all private and public health insurance. Viagra is covered by almost all public and private medical insurance but birth control pills and other birth control methods are not covered by some private medical