And by “universal access” he means we should pay for it.
(CNSNews.com) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that millions of girls — teenagers and younger — need access to abortion and contraceptives in order to “avoid unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted infections.”
“Sixteen million adolescent girls become mothers every year, and every day, more than 2,000 young people contract HIV,” Ban said. “We have a collective responsibility to drive these numbers down.”
Ban said the nations of the world must provide “reproductive health care” — i.e, access to abortion and contraceptives — for young people, as well as give them “access to the necessary information and the means to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence.”
Ban, quoting from a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, said “an estimated 3 million unsafe abortions took place in developing countries among girls aged 15 to 19 in 2008.”