The Department for International Development (DfID) has increased its contributions to the abortion giant Marie Stopes International (MSI) by over 5000% in the last 12 years, from £905,000 in 2006 to £48,173,000 in 2018.
Financial statements for the company found in Companies House reveal that since 2006 DfID has given over £300 million worth of taxpayers’ money to MSI, with over three quarters of that total given between 2014 and 2018. This enormous increase has made DfID the single biggest donor to Marie Stopes International.
DfID contributions to MSI account for over 16% of their entire £296,849,000 income in 2018. This represents a dramatic increase from 2006 where DfID provided only 1.5% of MSI’s income for that year.
The contribution of the British Government to this global abortion provider has increased each year since 2006 but increased substantially after 2010 at the same time as David Cameron’s Conservative Government came to power.
The total financial contributions from DfID do not include any money the British Government provides for Marie Stope abortion provision in the UK.
At the height of its contributions, the United States donated almost £24 million in 2016 to MSI, which is just over half the total contributions of the British Government for the same year.
This huge increase in DfID contributions comes at the same time as MSI performed almost 5 million abortions globally and rewarded its chief executive Simon Cooke a £217,250 bonus for doing so.
Mr Cooke’s impressive salary and bonus come off the back of a series of scandals in the past few years where inspectors found “dead foetuses lying in an open bin”; evidence of high pressure sales tactics to get women to have abortions; and cases of doctors pre-signing consent forms.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK Catherine Robinson said:
“The majority of the great increase in the contributions of the Department for International Development to this global abortion provider has occurred under the auspices of a Conservative Government.”
“Polling has shown that 65% of the British population are opposed to taxpayer money being used to fund abortions overseas, yet every year since 2006 the British Government has given more and more money to MSI for this purpose.”
(Photo credit screen shot: https://www.mariestopesinternational.org.au/about-us/board-of-directors)
