On Tuesday, the U.N., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, Planned Parenthood, and others celebrated “World Population Day” by campaigning to spread the abortion gospel to developing countries.
.@gatesfoundation announces add'l $375 mil for #familyplanning: "These women are counting on us & the world is counting on them" #HerFuture
— FP2030 (@FP2030Global) July 11, 2017
Today is #WorldPopulationDay2017–a time to celebrate a woman's right to freely decide if and when she wants children. It's #herfuture.
— Planned Parenthood Global (@ppglobe) July 11, 2017
Dr Tedros: 214 million women & girls in dev. countries would like to delay or stop childbearing & still don't have any contraception method pic.twitter.com/8MFWVS2guW
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) July 11, 2017
When a woman has access to the #familyplanning method of her choice, #HerFuture is not left to chance: https://t.co/9cEXRbJqqD v @UNFPA pic.twitter.com/srhD4AYEQS
— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 11, 2017
Many groups have successfully established abortion clinics in developing countries, some of which ban abortion, under the guise of humanitarian “family planning” services.
Nigerian pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha has a long track record of speaking truth into abortionist rhetoric. On Tuesday, the Culture of Life Africa founder and president set out to correct the rampant spread of misinformation:
"Contraceptives are one of the greatest anti-poverty innovations"says billionaire IT mogul's wife.
This. Is. A. Lie https://t.co/f4T7R90dCO
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) July 11, 2017
"When women&girls can access #FamilyPlanning,they have better control over their own lives"
I dare u to tell that to women who have no food https://t.co/TKCLpR6j7E
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) July 12, 2017
In a BBC World News interview Tuesday, Ekeocha called the effort to provide developing countries with free contraception and abortion “ideological colonization” that downplays the real will of the people.
This is why my opponents hate me, I love a good debate.Fairly long interview so see the full interview on YouTube: https://t.co/zOwylXcUqr pic.twitter.com/LW6bxwHKoZ
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) July 11, 2017
Responding to the U.N.’s claim that hundreds of millions of women around the world do not have access to contraception and legal abortion, Ekeocha explained why abortion is illegal in about 80 percent of African countries.
“They don’t have legal abortion, not because they can’t legalize abortion — we all have parliaments, we have governments that can go through the process of legalizing abortion. But actually, an overwhelming majority of the African people continue to reject abortion … ,” she said.
“I don’t think that any Western country has the right to pay for abortions in an African country, especially where the majority of people don’t want abortion,” she continued. “That then becomes a form of ideological colonization.”
Ekeocha’s interview took place as the British government co-hosted an international Family Planning Summit in London with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. Population Fund, Catholic Herald reported. The July 11 gathering drew a large group of global leaders aimed at “ensuring women and girls have access to family planning services.”
Today we came together for #HerFuture @melindagates @gatesfoundation @patel4witham @MarieStopes @UNFPA @MabelvanOranje @GirlsNotBrides pic.twitter.com/FMQCMvj7gR
— DFID (@DFID_UK) July 11, 2017
Speaking at the summit, billionaire Melinda Gates said that birth control empowers women, and that she was “deeply troubled” by President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw funding for abortion services overseas. In the wake that decision, the U.K. and Canadian governments have vowed to increase spending for family planning services abroad that include “safe abortions.”
Ekeocha called this push for contraception and abortion in developing countries a uniquely “Western solution” for reducing poverty, adding that “there isn’t a popular demand” for such services in many of these countries.
She went on to criticize the West’s emphasis on providing “family planning” services as opposed to fundamental humanitarian services like food, water, basic healthcare, and education.
“My lifeline out of poverty was education,” she shared, “it was not contraception.”
Watch the full interview below:
Earlier this year, Ekeocha released a short documentary on YouTube titled, “Killing Africa,” which exposes the illegal dealings of U.K.-based Marie Stopes International (MSI), the English-speaking world’s leading abortion provider.
She is currently raising funds to produce a feature-length documentary on the profound and devastating affect abortion has had on African women. You can learn more about Ekeocha’s latest project here.