Girl Up! Or, How “Investing” in Adolescent Girls is Code for Abortion Rights

By Terrence McKeegan, J.D. | February 7, 2011

Let’s follow the trail of all of the new campaigns focused on investing in adolescent girls. Not surprisingly, they all seem to end up in explicit abortion promotion.

First, as reported last week, the new UNFPA head made “youth reproductive health services” a priority for the agency.

Then, just this morning, UN Women tweeted about supporting the Girl Up! initiative.

About an hour later, the Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWC) tweeted favorably about the new UNFPA head’s “proclaimed commitment to youth reproductive health”.

So let’s see where this all leads.

The Girl Up website highlights a UN Adolescent Girls Task Force. That Task Force is run by the United Nations Foundation. Prominent on this site is the “Expert”, Tamara Kreinin, whose area of expertise includes “sexual and reproductive health and rights”.

One of the Task Force’s “key initiatives” is the Coalition for Adolescent Girls.

If you go to the Actions for Girls Help, Number 3 is:
“Place adolescent girls at the center of international and national action and investment on maternal health.”

Listed under this is the following:

They should translate evidence into programming to reduce adolescent maternal mortality beyond labor and delivery to also include family planning, nutrition, and abortion related care. Funding should be earmarked for adolescents within any new resource package for maternal health.

Oh, and just to close the loop, want to know who funds the Interagency Youth Working Group? It’s right there on their website – USAID and PEPFAR.

A follow-up post will look more at the pro-abortion advocacy of the IYWG.

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