Around the globe, 222 million women lack access to quality reproductive health care and family planning services, according to the United Nations, which last week set a goal to ensure universal sexual and reproductive health care to all women by 2030.
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The 33-year-old actress stars in a series of new PSAs for amusing or Die and WomanCare Global alongside Joy Bryant and Whitney Cummings.
During the interview she added that “We don’t want women’s reproductive health issues to be hidden under stigma or taboos anymore”.
When asked about Justin Timberlake’s opinion on the matter, Biel gushes over his support through her new business endeavor.
But it’s all for a good cause.
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Jessica and her friend Saundra Pelletier’s video series launch this week on website amusing or Die and the “Total Recall” actress thinks it was the best platform to reach as many people as possible. “Can we please laugh about all this insane stuff that happens to us?” This, of course, leads to Biel comparing her “stronger, nastier period” to Shark Week. “I want to walk into the bar… like ‘I can not get pregnant, ‘ and free drinks just start coming”. After talking with other woman she realized she was not the only one with a lack of knowledge when it came to these issues. Biel, who produced the videos starring comedians Whitney Cummings and Joy Bryant along with herself, bring up common misconceptions about a variety of female topics, such as menstruation, birth control, safe sex and STDS.
