by Steven Mosher, LifeSite
For all the UNFPA’s talk of reproductive rights, its leaders believe that unborn children have no rights, and that the planet would be better off with fewer people.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), born in the dark fear of exploding human numbers, has always been driven by a desire to reduce human numbers. Its annual reports have typically been focused on population growth, pushing abortion, sterilization, and contraception to combat “overpopulation.”
But now that the world’s population is leveling off, the populations of dozens of countries are in freefall, and it has lost U.S. funding, the agency trying to reinvent itself.
In its latest report, State of the World Population 2025, it spills much ink trying to convince its donors that “the real fertility crisis” is not falling birth rates but a “lack of reproductive agency.”
By this it means that young women, from the time they hit puberty (the report says “as early as 10”), should be freed of all societal controls when it comes to sex. Instead, the UNFPA says, they should be given access to sex education, contraception, sterilization, abortion, and even infertility care, if they so desire, so they can make their own “informed, voluntary choices about reproduction.”
Now sensible people will question whether 12-year-old girls should be having sex at all rather than encouraging these children to become sexually active under the pretense that they are capable of making “informed, voluntary choices about reproduction.”