this can mean dependence on male breadwinners abandoned opportunities for paid work and exhaustion that extracts a physical and mental toll barriers are larger in some places than others and harder to resolve in some situations than others regardless the universal character of reproductive rights the international commitments to them and the interrelationships between fertility and development mean that remaining barriers must fall especially if we are to achieve the agenda for sustainable development public policies services and budgets need to be aligned so that every person and couple can realize their reproductive rights including the right to plan their families