Editing Sexism (section)

=== Reproductive rights ===

{{Main|Reproductive rights}}

The [[United Nations Population Fund]] writes that, "Family planning is central to gender equality and women's empowerment".<ref name="UNFPA">{{cite web |title=Family planning—UNFPA—United Nations Population Fund |url=http://www.unfpa.org/family-planning |access-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref> Women in many countries around the world are denied medical and informational services related to [[reproductive health]], including access to pregnancy care, family planning, and contraception.<ref name="UNFPA" /><ref>{{cite web |author=Paul Hunt |author2=Judith Bueno de Mesquita |title=Reducing Maternal Mortality |url=http://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/reducing_mm.pdf}}</ref> In countries with very strict abortion laws (particularly in [[Latin America]]) women who suffer [[miscarriages]] are often investigated by the police under suspicion of having deliberately provoked the miscarriage and are sometimes jailed,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lakhani |first1=Nina |date=October 18, 2013 |title=El Salvador: Where women may be jailed for miscarrying |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24532694 |access-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref> a practice which Amnesty International called a "ruthless campaign against women's rights".<ref>{{cite web |date=January 15, 2015 |title=El Salvador must release women imprisoned after pregnancy related complications |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/01/el-salvador-must-release-women-imprisoned-after-pregnancy-related-complications/}}</ref> Doctors may be reluctant to treat pregnant women who are very ill, because they are afraid the treatment may result in fetal loss.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicaragua abortion ban 'cruel and inhuman disgrace' |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/nicaragua.abortion.ban/ |access-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref> According to [[Amnesty International]], "Discriminatory attitudes towards women and girls also means access to sex education and contraceptives are near impossible [in El Salvador]".<ref>{{cite web |title=El Salvador: Total ban on abortion is killing women and girls and condemning others to decades behind bars |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/el-salvador-total-ban-on-abortion-is-killing-women-and-girls-and-condemning-others-to-decades-behind |access-date=June 14, 2015 |website=Amnesty International USA}}</ref> The organization has also criticized laws and policies which require the husband's consent for a woman to use reproductive health services as being discriminatory and dangerous to [[women's health]] and life: "[F]or the woman who needs her husband's consent to get contraception, the consequences of discrimination can be serious—even fatal".<ref>{{cite web |title=Women's Lives, Women's Rights Campaigning for Maternal Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights |url=http://www.amnesty.ca/sites/amnesty/files/womens_lives_womens_rights_campaigning.pdf |publisher=Amnesty International}}</ref>