Pro-abortion World Health Organization has prepared for years to exploit a pandemic

“The pro-abortion World Health Organization (WHO) has been preparing for years to exploit a pandemic”, says John Smeaton, SPUC Chief Executive, responding to a WHO spokesperson labelling abortion an “essential service” even when COVID-19 is claiming thousands of lives.

Speaking to 5,000 people online on 27 March, Dr Antonella Lavalanet, Medical Officer in the WHO’s “Maternal and Perinatal Health & Preventing Unsafe Abortion Team”, said, in accordance with new WHO guidelines, that “women’s choices and rights to sexual reproductive health care should be respected irrespective of COVID-19 status”.

Drugs used in medical abortions were already listed as “essential medications” by WHO in 2017.

Exploiting the Coronavirus pandemic

During the webinar hosted by Sexual Reproductive Health Matters, a pro-abortion journal, Dr Lavalanet said that WHO was working with the UN to form guidance underlining abortion as “essential”, even during a pandemic.

It was also made clear that these instructions are aimed primarily at governments that “are trying to deprioritize these services”.

Significantly, the WHO officer asserted that, in response to COVID-19 and under-pressure health services, the WHO was advising that women should be able to “manage their own safe abortions” at home, “using mifepristone and misoprostol up until 12 weeks”.

Moreover, the WHO is prepared to forego safeguards and certain treatments, such as antibiotics, in order to allow abortions to continue. Dr Lavalanet also said that human resource workers should be redirected to abortion administration services.

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