International Abortion Groups Demand a Cut of Climate Funding
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Abortion providers and other family planning NGOs are demanding funding designated for addressing climate issues, asserting that climate change impacts women’s sexual and reproductive health.
In a recent letter to Alok Sharma, president of the UN Cop26 climate conference, a coalition of more than sixty organizations, asked the United Kingdom to change its funding eligibility rules to allow projects concerned with reproductive healthcare and girls’ education to access funds reserved for addressing climate change.
“Billions are allocated now to climate financing, adaptation and resilience. We’re hearing loud and clear from communities and women and our clients who are most affected by climate crisis that what they really want is access to reproductive healthcare, so that they can make choices about when or whether they have children,” said Bethan Cobley, a director of abortion giant MSI Reproductive choices, formerly Marie Stopes International.
The letter is likely an effort to make up for the deficit in funds for sexual and reproductive health due to the UK’s cuts to its foreign aid budget earlier this year. However, this is not the first-time abortion advocates have lobbied for funds from a seemingly unrelated source. Abortion advocates have successfully integrated into other sectors, including funding for HIV/AIDS and LGBT rights.
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