Holding 225 million women back

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h2><p>Ariel Wood, a student at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, won a national contest for the best video on youth involvement in support of reproductive rights. The contest was sponsored by the United Nations Foundation Universal Access Project in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Sierra Club.</p></h2>
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            <p>Ariel Wood, a student at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, won a national contest for the best video on youth involvement in support of reproductive rights. The contest was sponsored by the United Nations Foundation Universal Access Project in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Sierra Club. Her theme: Denial of access to reproductive health care will limit the opportunities of up to 225 million worldwide. You can see the <a href="http://www.plu.edu/marcom/news/2015/09/22/uncontest/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">video here</a>.</p><p>Wood, who is majoring in French and global studies, and other winners of the Why We Care Youth: Emerging Leaders for Reproductive Rights contest will travel to New York later this month for part of the upcoming U.N. General Assembly.</p>
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Ariel Wood, a student at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, won a national contest for the best video on youth involvement in support of reproductive rights. The contest was sponsored by the United Nations Foundation Universal Access Project in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Sierra Club. Her theme: Denial of access to reproductive health care will limit the opportunities of up to 225 million worldwide. You can see the video here.

Wood, who is majoring in French and global studies, and other winners of the Why We Care Youth: Emerging Leaders for Reproductive Rights contest will travel to New York later this month for part of the upcoming U.N. General Assembly.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi