Biden Awards Champion of Abortion, SOGI, and Censorship
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D, C-Fam:
U.S. President Joe Biden has given the United States’ highest civilian honor to George Soros, the investor and philanthropist who has used his influence to promote abortion and gender ideology internationally while working to censor his opposition and label them as “anti-rights.”
Biden credits Soros with having “focused on global initiatives that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice” through his Open Society Foundations. However, Soros’ vision of strengthening human rights involves taking highly controversial stances on issues that divide the international community, such as abortion, sexual orientation and gender identity, prostitution, and sexuality education.
At the 2023 Women Deliver conference, the Open Society Foundation announced a new funding facility “to counter the anti-rights movement and provide financial investment into the most neglected sexual and reproductive health areas,” including in particular “women in all their diversity and the LGBTQIA+ communities.” “Women in all their diversity” is a euphemism that expands the category to include biological men.
The emphasis on countering the so-called “anti-rights movement”—meaning mainstream social conservatives—is a longstanding priority of the Soros-funded UK-based website OpenDemocracy, which received a grant in 2022 for “$600,000 over 33 months “for exposing threats to sexual and reproductive health and rights.”