Executive Summary
Family Planning 2030 (FP2030) presents itself before the international community as a technical, inclusive and neutral platform, dedicated to guaranteeing access to modern methods of family planning with an approach based on human rights. Its institutional discourse appeals to the so-called need to empower women and girls through access to contraceptives and sexual and reproductive health services, and it states that it promotes equity, autonomy and sustainable development. However, this report demonstrates, based on official documentation, institutional statements and public records, that FP2030 has discreetly integrated abortion as an essential and non negotiable component of its model of family planning.
This incorporation is not carried out openly or explicitly in its general presentation, and it obeys 3 fundamental strategic reasons:
1. In numerous countries abortion continues to be illegal, partially or totally, which prevents the organizations that promote it from acting openly without incurring legal consequences or loss of legitimacy before local governments.
2. The current international consensus, especially in forums such as the United Nations, has expressly excluded abortion as a method of family planning. Therefore, its inclusion within this scope must be done by means of euphemisms, ambiguous terms or appeals to concepts such as “sexual and reproductive rights.”
3. The Mexico City Policy, driven by Republican governments of the United States (including the Trump Administration in 2017 and 2025), prohibits assigning federal funds to organizations that promote or practice abortions outside the country. FP2030, which receives financing from USAID, avoids openly declaring its role in the expansion of abortion so as not to compromise its international financial flow.
In Chapter 1, this FP2030 report examines the institutional architecture of FP2030. It describes its evolution from FP2020 and its consolidation as an international network that articulates governments, NGOs, private foundations and multilateral bodies. Through 5 regional hubs — with presence in Africa, Asia, Europe, Ibero America and the Caribbean — FP2030 coordinates actions, monitors national commitments and adapts its strategy to local contexts.
Although it presents itself as a network of family planning centered on access to modern contraceptives, its own documents show that FP2030 considers abortion part of the “comprehensive reproductive health package,” functionally equating it with contraception. This approach is concealed under expressions such as “informed decisions,” “comprehensive services,” or “access to reproductive rights.”
In Chapter 2, the report demonstrates that FP2030 is not only ideologically committed to the promotion of abortion, but that it does so with financial support from governmental agencies such as USAID, the principal bilateral donor for family planning in the world.
6 In 2022, USAID granted a $15,000,000 subsidy to FP2030. Although the official releases state that the funds are destined for voluntary family planning, the documentation reveals that these resources are used to sustain institutional structures — such as the regional hubs — that promote abortion indirectly or covertly.
FP2030 has recently removed the record of USAID as a donor from its website, although its financial linkage is verifiable through digital archiving tools such as the Wayback Machine. The alliance also channels funds to programs in countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, the Philippines and Zambia, in which partner organizations offer abortion services or advocate for its legalization.
Chapter 3 presents the core of the report: FP2030 considers abortion a fundamental service of sexual and reproductive health. In section 3.1, multiple institutional statements are collected, such as the one disseminated on March 17, 2025, in which leaders of member organizations declare that “contraception and safe abortion must be available within public health systems.” Through its social networks, FP2030 promotes courses and campaigns organized by feminist pro abortion networks, such as the “National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion” in Argentina. It also publishes articles that present abortion as a “human right” and consider it a legitimate solution in the face of poverty or lack of resources.
Section 3.2 of the report explains that this stance is not only sanitary or technical, but deeply political. FP2030 has adopted a position of active confrontation toward the Mexico City Policy, applied during the terms of Donald Trump, which prohibits foreign NGOs that receive U.S. funds from promoting or performing abortions. Instead of excluding abortion as a method of family planning, FP2030 responded by labeling these restrictions as “a hard blow for women’s health” and went out in search of new financing aligned with its pro abortion agenda.
In Chapter 4, it is shown how the organizations that integrate FP2030 promote and perform abortions without ambiguities. This chapter documents how its most influential international partners — among them IPPF, MSI Reproductive Choices, Pathfinder International, Women Deliver, EngenderHealth, Fòs Feminista, FIGO and the Guttmacher Institute — openly promote abortion as a human right, demand its decriminalization, and include it as an essential service in their clinics, campaigns, and educational platforms.
These organizations develop legal, communications, and clinical strategies to institutionalize abortion as public policy. Some promote self managed abortion, telemedicine abortion, and the incorporation of abortion into Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE).
At the regional level, the member NGOs in Ibero America — such as MEXFAM (Mexico), Profamilia (Colombia), APROFA (Chile), PROMSEX and Manuela Ramos (Peru), CIES (Bolivia), the Oriéntame Foundation and ASISTE (Colombia) — reproduce the same guidelines: provision of abortion services, normalization campaigns, production of educational materials and strategic litigation. All this under the framework of FP2030, which acts as an articulating platform.
In summary, the research contained in this report demonstrates that FP2030 has adopted abortion as an essential component of its notion of family planning, although it hides it behind technical and rights based language.
This strategy responds to legal limitations, political constraints, and financing barriers that impede an open presentation of abortion as an institutional objective. However, when analyzing its structure, its allies and its real activity, it is clear that FP2030 is today a global platform of coordinated influence for the legalization, legitimation and normalization of abortion, which articulates financial resources, political influence and technical capacity to modify the paradigm of sexual and reproductive health at a global level.