While developing countries ask for ventilators and PPE, amidst the coronavirus crisis, the UK Government has given an extra £10 million to the UNFPA targeted at developing nations including a number of African countries which includes spending on abortion.
African countries are in desperate need of ventilators, personal protective equipment and basic medical supplies as cases of COVID-19 continue to grow there.
The United Nations projects that, even in the best scenario, the continent’s 54 countries with a population of 1.3 billion people, will need 30,000 ventilators this year.
However, recent reports claim there are only 2,000 ventilators across the continent and that ten nations have no ventilators at all.
The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, stated that “the issue of ventilators is one of the biggest challenges that the countries are facing.”
Despite this huge challenge, the UK Government has decided to divert some of the international development spending that could be directed to funding this vital equipment to instead spend on funding more abortions for developing countries.
In response to a question asked by pro-abortion MP Caroline Lucas, the Government revealed it has continued to fund abortions across the continent.
Lucas asked the Government, in light of the crisis, what steps they had taken to “work with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to secure the supply of reproductive health products and ensure that women and girls in developing countries continue to have access to contraception and safe abortion throughout the COVID-19 outbreak.”
In its response, the Government revealed that the UK has continued with its existing support to UNFPA, including the UNFPA Supplies programme (£425 million between 2020-2025), and it has given an additional £10 million to the UNFPA.
It added, the Department for International Development (DfID) is already working closely with UNFPA in “providing high quality family planning and essential life-saving maternal health medicines to those in need, including commodities required for post-abortion care and medical abortions where it is legal.”
The extra spending is on a UNFPA project called the Global Humanitarian Response Plan includes and will include the roll-out of abortion services through the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP). The MISP was developed through the Inter-Agecy Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, of which the UNFPA and abortion giant Marie Stopes International are members. One of the MISPs five objectives is to provide abortions in response to a humanitarian crisis.
The group claim not all benefactors of its aid need to provide what they call “safe abortion care”.
However, in the documentaries Killing Africa and Strings Attached, the founder of Culture for Life Africa, Obianuju Ekeocha, exposes how pro-abortion organisations sneak their agenda into Africa under the guise of family planning and maternal mortality reduction programmes.
Additionally, the documentaries reveal how the UK isn’t just funding medical abortions where it is legal, as suggested in its response to Caroline Lucas, but is also funding illegal terminations through its funding of abortion giant Marie Stopes International.
Jacqueline Gandi who worked at a Marie Stopes clinic in Kenya revealed to the Strings Attached documentary that illegal abortions were being performed in the country and being recorded as “post-abortion care”.
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.
Obianuju Ekeocha has previously stated that not popular support among the general population in African countries for abortion to be legalised.
“The polls show overwhelmingly that Africans hate abortion, abhor abortion, both women and men.
“We have parliaments, we have different paths of legislature that can go through the process of legalising abortion – of passing a Bill, of making it law – but still the African countries continue to hold on to a particular view of the human person that life begins at conception.”
A spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson said:
“65% of the public oppose UK taxpayer money being spent on abortions overseas.
“Rather than continuing to support the pro-abortion lobby’s agenda, the UK Government should focus on assisting developing countries in getting the vital equipment it needs to save lives.”
