Whenever French president Emmanuel Macron wades into issues involving women’s reproduction, he tends to get into trouble. That was the case during a press conference at the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, when he said that the African continent had a “civilizational” challenge, including with population growth, adding that where there are “seven or eight children per woman,” spending billions in aid is pointless.
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