{"id":260032,"date":"2021-12-31T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=260032"},"modified":"2021-12-30T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:13:40","slug":"biden-support-unfpa-abortion-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-support-unfpa-abortion-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"With Biden support, UNFPA steps up abortion advocacy"},"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\/with-biden-support-unfpa-steps-up-abortion-advocacy\/\">C-Fam, Washington, D.C.<\/a>)\u00a0The UN\u2019s agency dedicated to promoting \u201csexual and reproductive health,\u201d is becoming more brazen in promoting abortion around the world, ignoring international consensus that leaves abortion laws to individual countries, and outsourcing its data collection to radical pro-abortion organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) hosted the Nairobi Summit in Kenya to mark the 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).\u00a0 Unlike the landmark ICPD, whose outcome was hotly debated by UN member governments and produced a compromise document rejecting abortion as an international human right, the Nairobi Summit was a stage-managed affair with no negotiated outcome.<\/p>\n<p>It did result in the Nairobi Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/u-s-fails-to-stop-pro-abortion-mandate-for-the-un-population-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a>, which includes reference to \u201caccess to abortion to the full extent of the law\u201d and other language that has never been adopted by the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>On the second anniversary of the summit, UNFPA published a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nairobisummiticpd.org\/publication\/no-exceptions-no-exclusions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> designed to hold countries to account for the commitments made in Nairobi. These commitments were never adopted by consensus, and neither were the indicators by which UNFPA seeks to measure them.\u00a0 For example, the indicator of \u201cabortion laws\u201d is based on data from the Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-abortion litigation organization whose position on abortion starkly contradicts the UN consensus. With regard to inclusion, UNFPA relied on the pro-LGBT organization ILGA to measure protection of people against hate crimes and incitement.<\/p>\n<p>Under former U.S. president Donald Trump, UNFPA issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/press\/statement-united-states-decision-again-withhold-critical-funding-unfpa-amid-global-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statements<\/a> urging the U.S. not to withhold its funding, claiming it did not promote abortion&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/with-biden-support-unfpa-steps-up-abortion-advocacy\/\"><em><strong>Read the entire article at C-Fam.org.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.\u00a0writes for C-Fam. <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/with-biden-support-unfpa-steps-up-abortion-advocacy\/\">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 DC-based research institute (<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/\">https:\/\/c-fam.org\/<\/a>). This article appears with permission.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(C-Fam, Washington, D.C.)\u00a0The UN\u2019s agency dedicated to promoting \u201csexual and reproductive health,\u201d is becoming more brazen in promoting abortion around the world, ignoring international consensus that leaves abortion laws to individual countries, and outsourcing its data collection to radical pro-abortion organizations. 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