Pro-life organizations in Colombia have demanded that President Gustavo Petro not allow the country to host the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2025), whose program includes the open promotion of abortion.
ICFP 2025 is scheduled to take place from November 1 to 7 in Bogotá. Within the sessions is the Global Dialogue on Safe Abortion (Global Safe Abortion Dialogue).
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On your website states that this session “will be a crucial opportunity for the global abortion community to come together to share ideas and develop a clear and unified action plan that deepens our collective efforts to advance abortion rights and access.”
Likewise, the ICFP 2025 also promotes comprehensive sexual education that includes “sexual and reproductive rights” and consider a session titled Feminists shape the future of abortion access through self-managed abortion.
For this reason, in a statement released by the citizen platform United for Life, pro-life organizations express that they do not understand how, if the Petro government’s motto is “Government of life”, it ends up being “one of the most important sponsors of this event.”
Pro-life organizations point out that the ICFP will bring together “about 4,000 attendees to promote and deepen all types of induced abortion (surgical and chemical), as well as methods of mass sterilization through the use of contraceptives of all types, surgical sterilizations and hormonization.”
“Profamilia de Colombia, branch of the IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) is also one of the hosts and sponsors of the event,” they add. In February, Profamilia assured that in the last three years more than 150,000 women accessed abortion in their clinics and that in 2024 there were “more than 56,000.”
Pro-life organizations denounced that this “is, strictly speaking, a genocide against the population group of unborn babies in Colombia” and that it contributes to the birth crisis facing the country. “Only between 2023 and 2024 we had 70,000 fewer births and 80,000 legal abortions, according to DANE in its latest report,” they say.
For all these reasons, they demand that the Petro government “not allow this world congress on abortion and sterilization (ICFP 2025) to take place in Colombia,” nor provide any type of financing.
In addition, they ask “that compensation be demanded from Profamilia and IPPF for the thousands of abortions and sterilizations carried out, and recognized by them, in the last 60 years against Colombians, which have plunged us into the serious population crisis that we suffer today.”
The statement also addresses the Bogotá Mayor’s Office to demand that it do “everything in its power to prevent this summit from taking place that threatens the population of the city and the country.”
“The citizens of Colombia will use all democratic and legal means to comply,” say the signatories, among whom are 40 Days for Life Colombia, the Right to Be Born Foundation, Proyecto Esperanza, Coalition for Life Colombia and others.
Eduardo Berdejo
Professional in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru, I have more than 20 years of experience in Catholic digital journalism. As part of ACI Prensa I have been sent to cover Pope Francis’ trips to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, in addition to the Synodality Synod in the Vatican in 2023.