...rights.... Family planning programmes ... must have policies that not just provide comprehensive sexuality education and information but also make contraceptives accessible to young women."

--Bela Ganatra, "Young and Vulnerable: The Reality of Unsafe Abortion among Adolescent and Young Women," ARROWs for Change, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 1-2.

Once we acknowledge that people with disabilities have sexual feelings, we can include them in sexuality education programmes and reproductive and sexual health interventions. If we are able to discern the differences between sex work and trafficking for sexual exploitation, and believe that sex work is work and is not always 'exploitation,' we will not expend our energies in trying to 'rescue' sex workers and "rehabilitate' them in meaningless and demeaning ways.... If we make consent our benchmark for acceptability, it allows us to work with and for the rights of same-sex desiring people.

--Radhika Chandiramani, "Why affirm sexuality," ARROWs...

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