{"id":25429,"date":"2013-02-11T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=25429"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:05:00","slug":"world-vision-sponsors-may-be-sponsoring-abortfacients-along-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/world-vision-sponsors-may-be-sponsoring-abortfacients-along-with-children\/","title":{"rendered":"World Vision sponsors may be sponsoring abortifacients along with children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Vision has filled the TV screens of many over the years, showing the terrible conditions to which poor children are exposed and offering us a chance to help bring hope to poverty-stricken children and their families. It seems, however, that World Vision\u2019s world vision includes all sorts of birth control, including those which are considered abortifacients, as well as connections with pro-abortion resources worldwide. While World Vision has actually tried to distance itself from the word abortion<\/i>, there is no doubt of its association.<\/p>\n

A report<\/a> from United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a U.S. government organization, from September 13, 2012 says:<\/p>\n

World Vision found that FP [family planning] was misunderstood to mean abortion by many people, so they changed their terminology from FP to Birth Spacing and then to Healthy Timing and\u00a0 Spacing of Pregnancies (HTSP), and it became easier to talk to people about family planning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

World Vision posted a current job post\u00a0 offering a career opportunity, with a grant related to HTSP, asking for a \u201cProject Director – Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies Multi-country Grant.\u201d This ad specifies:<\/p>\n

The Project Director will\u00a0manage a multi-country family planning grant designed to increase global political commitment and resource contributions to global, maternal, newborn and child health goals through:<\/p>\n

– increased awareness and engagement of political leaders in the US and Canada and<\/p>\n

– increased use of family planning based on\u00a0HTSP messaging to improve the sexual health of women of child-bearing age and survival of children under 2 in 3 project countries<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to USAID<\/a>, \u201cHealthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy is a family planning intervention that helps ensure that pregnancies occur at healthy times in a woman\u2019s life.\u00a0 This approach helps women delay, time, space, or limit their pregnancies to achieve the healthiest outcomes for mother and child.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Vision has received grants from The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and has a history of working with USAID, the source of the definition of HTSP above. On a USAID site which gives information on HTSP, this list is included as part of the ways in which the government agency encouraging pregnancy spacing:<\/p>\n

D. Hormonal Contraceptives:<\/p>\n