Abortion Group Targets Africa

An organization with a singular focus on abortion is targeting the African continent. Two events at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York this week illustrate how they are insinuating themselves into health ministries by using disability rights. They also hope to ensure that increased budgets for “reproductive health” will ensure a steady stream of government funding for abortion.

Among the feminist groups present at CSW, Ipas stands out because it exists for only one purpose: to promote and provide abortion internationally. One of their events detailed a project to advocate for access to health care for women with disabilities in Nigeria, a country with strong pro-life laws.

The project was described as an effort to increase contraceptive use among deaf women and women with physical disabilities, but the Ipas representatives made it clear that the true purpose of the project is far more insidious and controversial. In the name of educating health workers about how to better serve disabled people, Ipas conducts “values clarification” trainings, which it has long used to indoctrinate health care providers and break down their moral objections to abortion.

One attendee at the event questioned how Ipas’s focus on disability rights squares with the fact that unborn babies diagnosed prenatally with disabilities like Down syndrome are often selectively aborted.

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