Freezing Funding to the WHO Protects Taxpayers From Funding Abortion

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the WHO has kept its foot pressed hard on the population-control accelerator. On a webpage dedicated to “sexual and reproductive health in the context of Covid-19” it points to a previously-issued report on promoting self-managed chemical abortions. Yes, besides hand washing and social distancing, the organizations also recommend that girls and women self-diagnose and accurately date their pregnancies, rule out any ectopic pregnancies, and then manage their own chemical abortions. All without any medical assistance.

From a medical perspective, it’s hard to overstate the associated dangers of sepsis and hemorrhage involved in a self-managed chemical abortion. That’s especially the case in the hands of vulnerable women with limited or no access to accurate information, or a well-equipped emergency room. In the United States, these same chemical abortion drugs come with elaborate safety precautions to protect women’s health. If only the WHO would have the same concern for poor women, whose reproduction they wish to curb.

IPPF, the world’s largest abortion provider, is another heavily-favored organization at the WHO. It says something – something dark– about WHO’s commitment to keeping down the population of the developing world that it continues to funnel money to the IPPF. After all, the IPPF has lately been rocked with scandal of the worst kind. The organization recently had to implement sweeping reforms after it was revealed that, in Kenya, the IPPF provided prostitutes for staff, guests, and donors at its gatherings. Yes, an erstwhile charity that pays huge salaries to its officials was pimping young girls, exposing them to violence, disease, pregnancy and the soul-crushing experience of sexual exploitation.

President Trump already did Americans a great favor when he reinstated the so-called Mexico City Policy right after his inauguration. This policy required NGO’s to stop performing abortions as a condition for receiving American tax dollars. In fact, the IPPF was one of only four NGO’s that refused to go along with this condition. Now, by halting funding to the WHO, the president is expanding the favor.

It is a tragedy that our hard-earned dollars have been providing $400 to $500 million each year to the WHO and their ill-chosen partner NGOs. American taxpayers can take comfort in the fact that going forward the money will no longer be coming from our pockets.