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The U.S. Blocked Canada's Abortion Agenda at the G7 NegotiationsOne of the council's two co-chairs was philanthropist Melinda Gates, whose willingness to attach her name to a document with such an extreme pro-abortion message stands in sharp contrast to her prior insistence that her promotion of family planning would be separate from abortion.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, following the famous example of Sweden, has characterized his government and its foreign policy as "feminist." He employs quotas to ensure that half his cabinet members are women and imposes regulations on his party to support only pro-abortion policies and candidates. For the first time, as G7 host, Canada established a Gender Equality Advisory Council which submitted its recommendations to integrate gender into the G7's work. Other inputs included a statement from more than sixty feminists that included a call for an end to the "criminalization or restrictive regulation of abortion." The Gender Equality Advisory Council also included abortion in its recommendations, which called for the withdrawal of the U.S. Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (also called the Mexico City Policy), the provision of abortion as a component of humanitarian assistance, and funding for abortion advocacy, and government-subsidized coverage of abortion. According to the chairman's summaries of the discussions, several leaders called for the inclusion of "reproductive rights" language in the official declarations, but this proved impossible without U.S. agreement. One member of the council is Katja Iversen, President of Women Deliver, which will host its next conference in Canada next year. After the conference ended, Iversen and Canadian foreign Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau co-authored an editorial framing the formation of the Gender Equality council as the major outcome of the G7, omitting any mention of the official outcome documents... Continue reading here.
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