As the U.N. is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the U.N.’s Fourth World Conference on Women that took place in Beijing in 1995, conservatives must counter the prevailing liberal feminist perspective that reduces the diverse needs of women and girls to abortion rights under the guise of so-called “sexual and reproductive health.” Instead, to improve women and girls’ lives we must promote solutions that meet women’s real needs and desires, such as education, medicine and health care, economic empowerment, access to justice, and safety for their children and families. While many elites equate women’s empowerment with abortion rights, millions of women around the world reject this false and one-dimensional view of women’s needs.
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