The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP2025), held in Bogotá from November 3rd–6th, was not merely the seventh global event promoting family planning and discussing contraceptive methods. Rather, it was a public funeral for the now-defunct USAID combined with the unveiling of its replacement: Family Planning 2030.
The international machinery of population control is now under new management.
Gathered in the Colombian capital were the half-dozen organizations that now lead the anti-people movement: The International Planned Parenthood Foundation, Population Council, Women Deliver, MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International), DKT International, and Pathfinder International.
These six groups form the operational core of the most pro-abortion network around the world, marching in lockstep behind the deceptive banner of “sexual and reproductive health.”
The event itself was a demonstration of their newfound power. More than 4,000 participants from 140 countries filled a luxury hotel and convention center for an entire week for this convention, which featured no less than six plenary sessions and 287 themed sessions.
At Population Research Institute, we knew that ICFP2025 would be the forum where the future plans of the Culture of Death would be laid out. And we knew we needed to be there.
Borrowing a page from Father Paul Marx, who infiltrated Planned Parenthood meetings, a member of our Ibero-American team went undercover. He attended sessions, interviewed presenters, and collected printed promotional materials day after day.
The huge amount of evidence he gathered confirmed our suspicions: This was a political summit, designed to close ranks, to align priorities, and show renewed institutional strength at a critical moment for the abortion networks. And it did not attempt to hide its open promotion of abortion around the globe.
The Global Power Vacuum: The End of USAID
The organizations of the culture of death face a monumental challenge. The Trump Administration’s decision to effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has left the abortion networks reeling. USAID did not merely distribute funding, you see. It built structures, installed programs, trained technical cadres, and forged alliances that enabled these organizations to coordinate their efforts and work hand-in-hand in dozens of poor countries across the world.
The closure of USAID was a huge blow. It has left the entire abortion network rudderless and adrift. The members of this network gathered in Bogota to create a replacement. And they have found it, in Family Planning 2030.
Family Planning 2030 Wants to Become the New USAID
ICFP2025 was the staging platform for Family Planning 2030 (FP2030), which is attempting to step into the role previously played by USAID.
FP2030 presents itself as simply a technical “hub” for family planning, a source of expertise and training. But our research at PRI has shown that, in reality, it is already operating as a key abortion network. It is nothing less than the central coordinating body of a transnational alliance composed of large international NGOs, private foundations—including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—and several governments, mostly African. A new USAID, if you will
Although its public messaging focuses on access to “modern methods” of contraception, in practice it promotes abortion everywhere and always. And it does this following the same formula that USAID promoted for more than six decades—abortion is fully integrated into its agenda as an indispensable component of “reproductive health.”
FP2030’s response to the power vacuum left by the disappearance of USAID was apparent at the conference: Global leadership of the pro-abortion movement is now up for grabs, and FP2030 wants to lay claim to it.
The Key Session: USAID Operatives Bid Farewell and Call for New Leadership
The clearest sign of FP2030’s ambitions came on November 5th, when its representatives presided over a session entitled:
“USAID Contributions to Family Planning and Reproductive Health, and the Paths Ahead: Stories, Service, and Sustaining Impact.”
Monica Kerrigan, Managing Director of FP2030 and moderator of the session, practically broke into tears as she opened the session:
“Today I am moved… deeply emotional. This has been a very, very difficult year for all of you. This is a celebration of USAID’s legacy, so we will talk about the impact that each of you and our partners have generated around the world.”
More than one hundred and fifty (150!) former USAID employees were present at this session, and no fewer than 10 of them spoke in turn. They lauded their former agency’s efforts to “lay the foundations” for global reproductive policy. They explained how they had constructed programs designed to influence legislation, health systems, and public policy worldwide. And they bragged that it had all been funded by U.S. taxpayers!
Shyami De Silva, former Director of USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health before its shutdown, summed up the moment:
“There is a lot of duality in this experience… for me it is both comforting and heartbreaking. Hearing the gratitude and the stories shared fills my heart… and breaks my soul to consider the great losses on so many levels.”
But what began as a tribute quickly morphed into something else. The speakers began urgently calling for new global leadership of the engine of death that they had created. Other countries and organizations needed to step up to continue financing, coordinating, and strategically directing their efforts to legalize abortion and reduce the world’s population.
Traci Baird, President and CEO of EngenderHealth, spoke plainly:
“USAID as an institution has ended, but we know this work continues, right? … This is unstoppable.”
That was the cue for Sheila Macharia, Managing Director of FP2030, to lay out the strategic direction for the near future:
“I’ll say it this way, ‘never again.’ Should any country depend so heavily on a single donor? It is time for sovereignty. It is time for countries to forge our destiny. Yes, to establish partnerships.”
The head of FP2030 was not merely honoring USAID’s legacy, she was claiming its place at the very center of the web of abortion-promoting organizations. And its goals are virtually identical.
“Family Planning” Equals Abortion
There was much talk at ICFP2025 about “family planning.” But the objective is no longer just introducing contraceptives into public health systems. This has already been accomplished. The new goal is to reconfigure the entire international institutional architecture to integrate abortion as a routine, standardized, and financed service everywhere.
The end of USAID meant that organizations could be even more open about abortion, since they no longer had to worry about violating the Mexico City Policy. The MCP required foreign NGOs to agree not to “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning”—even with their own non-U.S. funds—as a condition for receiving U.S. aid.
With the U.S. restriction gone, family planning has become little more than an all-purpose euphemism for a global strategy aimed at normalizing abortion, especially in countries where it remains illegal.
One statistic illustrates this point clearly: Of the 287 sessions at ICFP2025, 42 were explicitly dedicated to promoting, lobbying for, or legalizing abortion.
The goal of Family Planning 2030 and its constituent groups is to expand abortion to every corner of the globe.
The end of USAID effectively decapitated the structure that had been built by USAID over the decades. Many of its component parts, deprived of U.S. tax dollars and institutional support, have had to downsize. Some have gone out of business. Of the 70 core organizations that gathered in Bogotá, at least 24 have received direct USAID funding in the past. We have the receipts, with documented amounts and timelines.
But the major tentacles of the international abortion movement have survived the funding cut-off, and they came together in Bogotá to create a new “head”, as it were, to lead them. And that new head is Family Planning 2030.
But they need money.
That is why FP2030 issued an explicit call to secure funding from private “philanthropy.” If they are to survive the loss of their major donor—the U.S. taxpayer—then they need foundations like the Gates Foundation to pony up.
PRI’s Ongoing Mission
At Population Research Institute, we will continue to investigate, document, and warn the public about this international abortion network and its aims.
Family Planning 2030 is not about simply promoting “reproductive health.” It is about imposing abortion, gender ideology, and other Western cultural imperialisms on countries and peoples around the world without public debate.
In other words, Family Planning 2030 is the new USAID.
