{"id":239966,"date":"2021-02-15T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T19:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=239966"},"modified":"2021-02-14T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:31:35","slug":"melinda-gates-family-planning-abortion-groups-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/melinda-gates-family-planning-abortion-groups-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Gates&#8217; Family Planning 2020 coalition aided abortion groups in promoting their agendas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/global-family-planning-coalition-subsumed-in-abortion\/\">Washington, D.C., C-Fam<\/a>)\u00a0Melinda Gates\u2019 Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jPEcfaoFJXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrated<\/a>\u00a0the progress they say they\u2019ve made since its debut in 2012 and announced a new, updated partnership for the next ten years they are calling FP2030. Beneath the festive veneer, the awkward fact remains that FP2020 has fallen well short of its goals. What\u2019s more, despite the partnership\u2019s attempts to maintain neutrality, several participants used the event to promote abortion.<\/p>\n<p>FP2020 was launched at a summit in London, sponsored by Melinda Gates, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the government of the UK. Earlier that year, Gates announced that she wanted to make family planning her signature area of philanthropy, while stressing she wanted \u201cno controversy\u201d related to abortion or population control. \u201cThere\u2019s a global movement waiting to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was already a global family planning movement, and its leaders were not interested in setting abortion to the side. Gates\u2019 #nocontroversy hashtag quickly fell into disuse, and where FP2020 stayed relatively quiet on abortion, its partners and members of its steering groups filled the silence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/melinda-gates-wrong-birth-control-poverty\/\">Melinda Gates is wrong: Birth control isn\u2019t poverty control<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a panel at the FP2020 event, Alvaro Bermejo, director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), said \u201cthe partnership has really made SRHR [sexual and reproductive health and rights] advocacy issues more effective\u201d by bringing donors and implementing organizations together and creating accountability for governments.\u00a0 FP2020 executive director Beth Schlachter agreed, echoing his support for \u201cfamily planning and SRHR more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SRHR remains a highly controversial concept which has been rejected by the UN General Assembly for decades due to its associations with abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Another frequent theme of the event was the Mexico City Policy, reinstated and expanded by former President Donald Trump, which blocked U.S. funds from going to foreign-based groups that promote or provide abortions, such as IPPF affiliates.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe made a specific decision to ensure that MSI [Marie Stopes International] and IPPF remained on the reference group to demonstrate that people could have different opinions [\u2026] but we as a community were going to try to find a way to work together,\u201d said Schlachter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFP2020 managed to remain as the one convener where the U.S. government and staff and technical people and implementers like ourselves and other donors came around the table,\u201d said Bermejo.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous participants denounced Trump and his policies, including Simon Cooke, CEO of MSI, who also spoke stridently about abortion.\u00a0 \u201cWe have pathways for trans men to access abortion services\u201d at MSI clinics, he said, acknowledging that \u201cthese are infinitesimally small numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/funded-bill-gates-abortion-pill-worldwide\/\">Funded by Bill Gates, this organization is marketing the abortion pill worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between providing opportunities for IPPF and MSI to promote their broader agendas, the event showcased FP2020\u2019s crowning achievement: 60 million additional users of modern contraception since 2012.\u00a0 This fell significantly short of the partnership\u2019s goal of adding 120 million new users in that time. FP2020\u2019s progress had been off target for years, long before the COVID-19 pandemic created global disruption.<\/p>\n<p>While FP2020 framed its work in terms of creating access to contraceptives, its metrics continue to rely on \u201cunmet need,\u201d which does not measure access and masks the fact that only a tiny percentage of women described as having such a \u201cneed\u201d cite lack of access as the reason.<\/p>\n<p><i>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/i><i>Rebecca Oas, Ph. D. writes for C-Fam.\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/global-family-planning-coalition-subsumed-in-abortion\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family &amp; Human Rights), a New York and Washington D<\/i><i>C-based research institute (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/\"><i>https:\/\/c-fam.org\/<\/i><\/a><i>). This article appears with permission.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, D.C., C-Fam)\u00a0Melinda Gates\u2019 Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) coalition celebrated\u00a0the progress they say they\u2019ve made since its debut in 2012 and announced a new, updated partnership for the next ten years they are calling FP2030. Beneath the festive veneer, the awkward fact remains that FP2020 has fallen well short of its goals. 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