UN Population Agency Wants To Cure Fertility Crisis With Abortion, LGBT Ideology

The United Nations' population agency has attacked one of President Donald Trump's proposals to boost America's sagging birthrate while claiming the best way to cure low fertility rates is more abortion, replacing the traditional family with "diverse family structures," furnishing artificial fertility to people who identify as LGBTQ, "comprehensive" sex education classes for young people, more government welfare programs, and reducing social or religious norms for mothers to stay at home with their newborn babies. 

It also calls on lawmakers to fight "misinformation" about abortion and insists that laws protecting the unborn from abortion are not "pro-baby."

Population experts tell The Washington Stand the report is a decades-old outline by population control theorists to reduce global birthrates and amounts to "gaslighting" on a global scale.

The dubious-sounding fertility guidance comes from the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) recently released, sprawling, 156-page report titled "The Real Fertility Crisis."

"The report warns against simplistic or coercive responses to declining birth rates -- such as baby bonuses or fertility targets -- noting that these policies are largely ineffective and can violate human rights," explained UNFPA in a press release. The release did not explain how government bonuses to mothers violate human rights. 

"Instead, UNFPA urges governments to empower people to make reproductive decisions freely, including by investing in affordable housing, decent work, parental leave, and the full range of reproductive health services and reliable information" -- which the organization clarifies means ending "restrictions in reproductive rights, including contraception and abortion."

UNFPA does not seem to see the developed world's population bust as a problem. The "real" crisis, says the report, is lack of "reproductive autonomy," and the "solution requires a fundamentally different approach: to greatly increase global investments in advancing reproductive autonomy," says the UNFPA report. "Other solutions include expanding access to parenthood to LGBTQI+ and single people," adds the press release.

UN Population Agency: Protecting the Unborn from Abortion Is Not 'Pro-Baby'

The UNFPA report stigmatizes pro-life laws as "violence" that differs little from forced sterilization and may reduce the number of children a mother has.

Governments "can and do perpetrate violence that directly impacts women's fertility intentions, including forced sterilizations, forced abortions and criminal penalties on abortion care," says the report.

"At the extreme, for example, some states have engaged in forced sterilization and coerced contraception; others have banned contraception and abortion," states the report.

The report goes on to state that an "example of unintended consequences" is that "bans on abortion can lead to individuals voluntarily or involuntarily forgoing reproduction. An increasing number of young people sought permanent sterilizations -- both tubal ligations and vasectomies -- as abortion bans came into effect in the United States in 2022 and 2023."

Yet the report admits that in Romania, "When the ban on contraception and abortion was lifted ... the country saw immediate declines in the fertility rate, to 1.84 in 1990 and reaching a low of 1.27 in 2001" (p. 26). It later complains, "Anti-gender activists in Europe have called on politicians to 'use demographic decline as an argument' in pursuit of a 'legal ban on abortion in all jurisdictions.'"

"Policies that deny access to abortion care and contraception are not 'pro-baby,'" the UNFPA report insists. Its authors note with pleasure that, since the 1994 Cairo U.N. population conference, "60 countries have revised their abortion laws to remove restrictions" on abortionists taking unborn lives for money.

IVF for LGBT: A Way to Redefine the Family

The UNFPA seeks to do more than promote abortion; it hopes to engage the government in redefining the family. It sees the fertility crisis as an opportunity to promote the LGBTQ lifestyle. "Within this challenge is an opportunity -- a chance to equalize access to fertility care for those currently left behind, whether they are ethnic minorities, economically disadvantaged, members of the LGBTQIA+ community or single individuals seeking an unconventional path to parenthood."

The new report complains:

"Encouragement to have more children is not applied equally for all people, with middle- and upper-class, heterosexual, married women often prioritized as ideal candidates for motherhood. Single women, LGBTQIA+ individuals and low-income groups are frequently excluded from such benefits. 

These policies reinforce gender unequal norms, perpetuating the idea that a woman's primary role is to bear children, while systematically marginalizing diverse family structures and individual aspirations. As a result, the burden of addressing low fertility rates disproportionately falls on specific groups of women, further entrenching inequalities and limiting reproductive agency." (Parenthetical reference omitted.)

UNFPA bemoans the LGBTQ movement's inability to access affordable surrogacy and fertility options.

LGBT-identifying people must have a hand in shaping family policy, says the report. Because specific "policymaking must be inclusive ... it will remain critical to include representatives across different communities, from single mothers to ethnic minorities to LGBTQIA+ persons, to ensure that benefits accrue to all."

Encouraging More Immigration

Rather than craft policies that encourage indigenous citizens to have more children, UNFPA advises governments to increase immigration levels -- even if voters reject that policy. "To address flagging economic productivity and workforce shortages, reforms must also include increasing women's and young people's access to decent work and, though it may be unpopular, greater immigration." But in addition to reducing the wages and job security of citizens, immigrants' fertility levels promptly converge downward to U.S. norms.

Governments Must Fight 'Misinformation' about Abortion: UNFPA

UNFPA asks governments to combat "misinformation" that could result in "sowing distrust" about abortion. "Falsehoods about reproductive health, human anatomy and healthcare are proliferating widely, particularly on social media, sowing distrust of everything from contraceptives and cervical cancer screens to human papillomavirus vaccines, abortion and HIV," it says. 

"When sexuality education contains misinformation or incomplete information, or when information is conveyed in a stigmatizing way, it can reinforce harmful stereotypes and impair young people's ability to plan their futures and families. ... Unfortunately, accurate sexual health information is being undermined, both at the governance level and in the growing proliferation of misinformation."

"This is a concerning trend, one that policymakers can and must address," says the report.

UNFPA Complains Parents Influence Children, and Religion Shapes Society

UNFPA makes clear that promoting the sexual liberation agenda may entail undermining the tenets of religious faith. The report warns that "coercive social norms also shape and drive fertility aspirations and limit reproductive agency. Norms around motherhood, gender roles and the value of children in society can be reinforced coercively; for example, through parents or older members of the community dictating how young people and couples should behave." Two pages earlier, the report specified that these social pressures include the "expectations of one's religion."

The UNFPA Fertility Report Is 'Gaslighting,' 'Simply Idiotic': Expert

Pro-family experts say the UNFPA fertility report stands reality on its head. "What we seem to have here is an organization (UNFPA) that is caught in a 'purity spiral' and is aggressively gaslighting anyone who is foolish enough to listen," Brian Clowes, director of research and education at the pro-life Human Life International, told The Washington Stand.

Clowes, who is a former Green Beret who went on to earn a Ph.D. after graduating from West Point, called the UNFPA's argument "simply idiotic." 

"Everyone who has ever worked in the population control movement is fully aware that these measures help to dramatically reduce fertility," Clowes stated. "Everyone who has anything to do with reducing fertility is familiar with the memo from Frederick S. Jaffe to Bernard Berelson, then-president of the most influential population control organization in the world, the Population Council. This memo, written over half a century ago, specifically endorses abortion and 'encourag[ing] women to work' as measures to reduce population."

The memo from Jaffe -- then a high-ranking official in the Alan Guttmacher Institute -- also noted government benefit programs reduced fertility and hoped to study how encouraging suburban home ownership had promoted family growth.

He also noted policies including "compulsory abortion."

But the UNFPA document is not without innovation. For example, the notion that pro-life protections lead to fewer babies "sounds like it was made up from thin air," Clowes told TWS.

"This is the organization that helped to fund and construct the Chinese forced-abortion program and which has studiously ignored the rights of women all over the world."

Is the UNFPA Getting Revenge on the President Who Defunded It?

The U.N. population agency's attack on "baby bonuses" comes as the Senate debates President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which creates TRUMP accounts (originally MAGA accounts); the government will deposit $1,000 in an account for every child born between 2024 and 2028.

President Trump cut off the flow of U.S. taxpayer funds to UNFPA in March. His proposed 2026 budget includes the Kemp-Kasten amendment, which denies federal funding to any organization that "supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization" -- the same provision he used to redirect UNFPA funding. UNFPA worked closely with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which brutally enforced the nation's One Child policy.

The No Taxpayer Funding for the United Nations Population Fund Act (H.R. 699), reintroduced by Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas), would codify the president's executive action into law.

President Trump, who has renewed America's focus on national sovereignty, has also announced his intent to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and the Paris Accords climate change agreement. 

He has also withheld U.S. payments to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Last month, the UNFPA called on President Trump to restore the approximately $335 million of U.S. funding he withdrew.

The UNFPA's latest report will likely do little to make the Trump administration regret redirecting American taxpayers' dollars.

Originally published at The Washington Stand