The World Health Organisation has updated its guidance regarding essential medical services amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. The updated guidance now promotes abortion as an “essential service” and encourages the expansion of DIY telemedicine abortion with the remote distribution of chemical abortion drugs. Maria Madise, SPUC International Director said: “It is completely unacceptable for the global health agency to promote killing babies as part of its guidance on essential healthcare and governments who care about the life and health of their vulnerable citizens should decidedly denounce WHO’s advice.”
The new guidance, states that abortions should be made available “to the full extent of the law.” It also encourages countries to “consider reducing barriers that could delay care.”
The guidance also encourages a shift from surgical procedures to “non-invasive medical methods” using telemedicine and “self-management approaches” which could reduce facility visits.
Commenting, SPUC’s Ms Madise said: “The World Health Organisation has yet again shown how little it actually cares about life and health, especially at a time when it is most vulnerable.”
Exploiting the pandemic
SPUC have been reporting on the WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been used to promote a radical pro-abortion agenda.
On March 27th, as reported by SPUC, a WHO spokesperson labelled abortion an “essential service” at a time when millions around the world were concerned about the coronavirus threat to human lives around the globe.
Speaking to 5,000 people online, 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”.
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”.
“Covid had provided UN abortion advocates with a golden ticket”
Maria Madise, SPUC International Director said: “The World Health Organisation has yet again shown how little it actually cares about life and health, especially at a time when it is most vulnerable. Early on amid the COVID-19 outbreak, WHO indicated that it is working on a statement that would identify abortion as an 'essential service' at the time of the pandemic. Mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in chemical abortions, have been on the WHO list of “essential medicines” already since, at least, 2007.
“While it is considered to be the role of the WHO to set health standards for the entire world, none of its guidance is legally binding. But at the time of a global health emergency, it is, nevertheless, inevitable that this body should appear centre stage and governments worldwide will look to it for recommendations and advice when setting the priorities for their healthcare systems.
“The coronavirus pandemic, therefore, has provided the abortion advocates in the UN with a golden opportunity to promote even greater access to contraception and abortion across the globe and countries have created guidance for this time of COVID-19 using the information from within WHO guidelines. This rings painfully true in the UK where the government, after the fiasco of publishing three contradictory statements on the issue of home abortions in the course of a week, yielded to the abortion lobby and authorised women to kill their babies in their own home during the pandemic without any medical supervision.
“Policies against life have nothing to do with health and what indeed is essential is to expose WHO’s life and health threatening guidance. It is completely unacceptable for the global health agency to promote killing babies as part of its guidance on essential healthcare and governments who care about the life and health of their vulnerable citizens should decidedly denounce WHO’s advice.