Parliamentarians make the public aware about the right to decide one’s family size

To raise awareness of the unmet need for family planning, 12 Belgian members of parliament of 9 different political parties revealed the size of their families to the Belgian public. They did so in a joint video message, in which they explained they were free to decide on the size of their family, while 214 million women in the Global South who want to avoid or postpone a pregnancy, cannot do so, because they lack access to contraceptives. 

The participating parliamentarians – members of the ‘Parliamentarians for the 2030 Agenda’ included MPs of almost all political parties in Belgium, with MPs from the French-speaking socialists (PS), christian democrats (CdH), greens (Ecolo) and regionalists (Défi), and the Dutch-speaking social-democrats (SP.a), greens (Groen), leftists (PVDA), liberals (Open VLD) and christian democrats (CD&V).
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The video was shared on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and was well-received by MPs’ followers and the broader public. The initiative was part of the broader Countdown2030Europe’s BecauseSheCounts campaign​, and was organised by Sensoa International, the secretariat of the parliamentary group.