Both sex workers and typical moms benefit from access to birth control, writes actress and activist Ashley Judd. How safe sex builds economies and advances societies around the globe.<\/p>\n
Ten years ago, the United States joined 188 other countries in adopting the eight lofty Millennium Development Goals, promising to work collectively toward a future with less poverty, hunger, and disease; more opportunities for women; and greater prospects for survival for mothers and infants.<\/p>\n
That same year\u20142000\u2014was also the year that a young girl named Melodie, living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrated her 20th birthday\u2014and her seventh anniversary as a woman trapped in prostitution. . .<\/p>\n