25. The right to health care without discrimination requires State parties to remove impediments to the health services reserved for women, including ideology or beliefbased barriers. Administrative laws, policies and procedures of health systems and structures cannot restrict access to family planning/contraception on the basis of religious beliefs. 26. The right to freedom from being subjected to discrimination prohibits any deprivation concerning access to family planning/contraception services by health care providers for reasons of conscientious objection. While it is true that they may invoke conscientious objection to the direct provision of the required services, State parties must ensure that the necessary infrastructure is set up to enable women to be knowledgeable and referred to other health care providers on time. In addition, State parties must ensure that only the health personnel directly involved in the provision of contraception/family planning services enjoys the right to conscientious objection and that it is not so for the institutions. However, the right to conscientious objection cannot be invoked in the case of a woman whose health is in a serious risk, and whose condition requires emergency care or treatment. 27. Administrative laws, policies, procedures and practices, as well as socio-cultural attitudes and standards that impede access to contraception/family planning violate the woman’s right to life, non-discrimination and health, in that they deprive her of her decision-making power and force her to undergo early pregnancy, unsafe or unwanted pregnancy, with as consequence, the temptation to seek unsafe at the risk of her health and her life. Article 14.1.f): the right to family planning education 28. State parties are required to provide complete and accurate information which is necessary for the respect, protection, promotion and enjoyment of health, including the choice of contraceptive methods. The measures required of State parties include: (a) training or upgrading healthcare providers and competent educators regarding complete information to provide to clients, including the causes of the failure of the practiced contraception method and the options that are available, if the said failure results in an unwanted pregnancy; b) ensuring that available, accessible, acceptable and reliable information on contraceptive methods is provided, in printed form or by other means, such as the Internet, radio and television, mobile phone applications, and other telephone assistance service; (c) enabling the structures of health facilities, institutions and teaching programs, as well as civil society organizations which are duly competent, to provide the relevant population with necessary information and education on family planning/contraception; 9

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