FIGO’s Dark Agenda: Global Advocacy for Abortion Without Limits
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) presents itself as a scientific institution dedicated to maternal health. However, a closer look reveals that its true goal is the global promotion of abortion, cloaked in the appearance of medical neutrality.
A recent report by the Population Research Institute Ibero-America, based on FIGO’s official website, outlines how the organization operates across Latin America, Europe, and Africa with a clear agenda: to promote abortion in all countries and ensure unrestricted access. Behind its scientific façade, FIGO functions as a political advocacy platform serving the abortion industry.
FIGO brings together national gynecology societies from over 130 countries. Its website reveals an almost exclusive focus on abortion, training medical professionals, dismantling legal restrictions, and engaging in political activism. While millions of women around the world suffer from sexually transmitted diseases, cervical cancer, and other gynecological issues, FIGO chooses to channel its resources into hosting forums, publishing abortion guidelines, and funding pro-abortion campaigns.
Funding is key. In October 2024 alone, USAID awarded FIGO $89 million. The question is: what has FIGO done with all that money?
The report shows that FIGO collaborates with governments and national medical societies to push for abortion decriminalization, particularly in countries with existing restrictions such as Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. Its strategies include training healthcare workers and distributing abortion drugs, like misoprostol and mifepristone, on a large scale.
In Latin America, FIGO partners with local medical societies to expand legal grounds for abortion. In Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Mexico, the organization has actively supported legislative reforms and trained doctors in abortion techniques. In Africa, its focus has been on training health workers in rural areas, promoting the unsupervised sale of abortion pills, and even partnering with traditional medicine practitioners to expand access. In Europe, its strategy centers on lobbying international bodies, pressuring governments to lift abortion restrictions, and pushing its narrative within institutions such as the UN and WHO.
Perhaps most alarming is the way FIGO protects those who perform illegal abortions. It has issued recommendations for doctors not to report such procedures, promoted self-managed abortions without medical supervision, and advocated for the removal of conscience protections for healthcare professionals.
Moreover, FIGO has defended controversial late-term abortion practices, such as fetal asystole induction, in which a substance is injected directly into the fetus’s heart to cause death.
What we see is not a neutral medical organization, but an ideological entity with a global mission to normalize and expand abortion access. Its activism leaves no room for ethical or medical debate, nor for the consideration of alternative views on prenatal life.
Given this reality, it is urgent that governments, health professionals, and civil society recognize FIGO’s influence on public policy and begin to critically assess the power it exerts over legislation that directly impacts the lives and health of women and children worldwide.
