(C-Fam) The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) recently launched an online course on the use of abortion pills. The course is based on guidance from the World Health Organization and in collaboration with a website that promotes medication abortion even where it is illegal.
The IPPF course was launched on the website HowToUseAbortionPill.org, run by anonymous “dedicated individuals” and affiliated with an unnamed U.S.-based nonprofit. HowToUseAbortionPill.org demonstrates the owners’ disregard for national laws by advising women to dispose of “anything recognizable” if they live in a country where abortion is illegal or restricted.
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The site not only keeps its ownership secret, it encourages potentially dangerous and illegal drug activity, and claims credibility from the World Health Organization, citing the WHO’s extreme abortion guidance. The course also received an endorsement from the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, which has a longtime pro-abortion position.
The World Health Organization itself has signaled its disdain for the laws of sovereign countries in a “self-care” guidance urging the use of self-managed abortion with pills in places where it is illegal or restricted.
IPPF is a leading global abortion provider. In addition to providing services like contraceptives and abortions, it lobbies governments to liberalize their abortion laws and claimed credit for “successfully advocat[ing] for the country registration of medical abortion drugs and for their inclusion into national essential medicine lists.”
The World Health Organization maintains a global essential medicines list, and has been repeatedly lobbied by abortion organizations to include abortion drugs on the list. The drug mifepristone, also known as RU 486, was moved to the “core” essential medicines list in 2019, while deleting a caveat saying it should be used with close medical supervision.
This ensures the widespread availability of abortion drugs…
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Editor’s Note: Rebecca Oas writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.
