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| World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
The World Health Organization, a pro-abortion United Nations entity designed to "direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system," said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation that “services related to reproductive health are considered to be part of essential services during the COVID-19 outbreak.”
“Women’s choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health care should be respected, irrespective of whether or not she has a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection,” WHO said in their statement. This is a misrepresentation of the arguments government officials have been making against providing abortions during this time. The temporary closure mandates in states like Texas were created not to discriminate against those who might have the virus, but to preserve medical equipment and slow the spread of the disease by keeping people from sitting in crowded waiting rooms during this time.
The further said that “sexual and reproductive health care is integral to universal health coverage and achieving the right to health... This includes contraception, quality health care during and after pregnancy and childbirth, and safe abortion to the full extent of the law.” The WHO noted that it provides both global technology and policy guidance to WHO members “on the use of contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy, safe abortion, and treatment of complications from unsafe abortion.”
In the White House's April 7 coronavirus briefing, Donald Trump said that he was open to ending United States funding of the WHO.
“They seem to err always on the side of China and we fund it, so I want to look into it,” the president said.
A reporter challenged Trump's statement, saying, “Is it time to freeze [U.S.] funding to the WHO during a pandemic?”
“No, maybe not,” Trump responded. “I am not saying that I am going to do it, but we are going to look at it. We are going to investigate it, we are going to look into it... but we will look at ending funding because you know what, they called it wrong and if you look back over the years even, they’re very much – everything seems to be very biased towards China – that's not right.”
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