International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPF is the world's largest non-governmental organisation promoting abortion and population control and has its headquarters in London. It is an international federation of family planning associations.

IPPF believe that "where legal, good quality abortion services should be made easily available to all women" (Statement on abortion by the IPPF International Medical Advisory Panel, October 1983. Approved by the IPPF Central Council November 1983). However, they do not stop at advocating legal abortion. In the 1984 IPPF leaflet, The Human Right to Family Planning, they state: "Family Planning Associations ... should not use the absence of law or the existence of an unfavourable [i.e. pro-life] law as an excuse for inaction; action outside the law, and even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change".

IPPF is funded mainly by governments, wealthy foundations and through bodies like the National Lottery in the UK. The China Family Planning Association, which plays a central role in that country's [coercive] population control policy, is also an IPPF affiliate (IPPF website, April 03)

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