Half The Sky Summary

Our Government In the book Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn there were many arguments about the UNFPA which was created in 1969, giving the award of Population Award gold medal to Qian Xinzhong, who was forcing abortions in China and was the head of the family planning program. This set up a controversial issue with the United States government because it couldn 't do anything to hurt China so it got rid of the funding for UNFPA. The United States government wanted to bring up the issue of family planning especially with birth control use, abstinence-only programs and the control of abortions in Africa. There are many people who have HIV and AIDS that could be prevented if those programs were effective. The author tries to make a point that on both sides of this issue need to be more flexible and and try to make things work for the health of the women and men, with this issue. The argument in the book is facing against the Republicans and Democrats and how us Americans need to play a role in family planning and birth control uses. The author makes many arguments regarding the steps to help women and men. One argument the author
The author reached out by using ethos with the scholars of MIT because he shown there was success measured by pregnancies averted and reflected the amount of unprotected sex that could also transmit AIDS. Also another ethos by the author makes credibility in introducing Professor John Cleland saying, “Contraceptive use in Africa has hardly increased in the last ten years in married women..” By Cleland saying this it makes us American, liberals or conservatives, what we are we doing that is being affective to help Africa and all the other poor countries? By using contraception programs, has had an effect in reducing fertility, but less than supports