Amnesty International uses war in Ukraine to promote abortion
Amnesty International uses war in Ukraine to promote abortion
Follow @KnightsTempOrgA number of pro-abortion organisations are using the current situation in Ukraine as an opportunity to attempt to change abortion laws in surrounding countries, provide medical abortion pills in humantarian kits and block funding to groups working to help Ukrainian refugees if the organisations oppose abortion.
Amnesty International, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and a number of other pro-abortion organisations have signed an open ‘Call to Action’ in which they use the war in Ukraine as an excuse to increase access to abortion across the region.
In the Call to Action, these organisations urge the European Union to “take swift and effective measures to facilitate and support urgent access to early medical abortion, through supporting cross-border and telemedical service-provision, for key populations”.
The same document laments that a number of countries surrounding Ukraine, which are providing asylum for refugees and other forms of assistance, including Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, have laws that recognise the right to life of unborn children to at least some degree.
The abortion groups call for “urgent political support, guidance and technical assistance to the Governments of Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia to facilitate the removal of legal and policy barriers that are impeding the provision of essential sexual and reproductive health care”.
In addition to lobbying the EU, the pro-abortion organisations urge the Governments of Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia to: “Issue policy guidance clarifying that sexual and reproductive health care, including emergency contraception, contraception and abortion care… is essential health care that should be provided free of charge and that health-care providers will be fully reimbursed, under existing regulations, for the provision of this care to all those fleeing Ukraine”.
The groups have called for increased funding for their activities to promote abortion and for the blocking of funding to groups working to help Ukrainian refugees if the organisations oppose abortion. This included calling for the European Union, donor governments and the broader international community to “verify that financial assistance is not provided to antiSRHR [anti-sexual and reproductive health and rights] and anti-equality organizations and actors in Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia or Ukraine”.