Planned Parenthood International pleads for donors to help rebuild destroyed abortion clinic in Gaza

The International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) is pleading for donations in order to assist thousands of women who will be “forced to give birth” in the upcoming months after its only abortion center in Gaza was inadvertently destroyed by Israeli forces on October 8.

According to the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) — an affiliate of the IPPF that was founded in 1964 — their sole abortion facility in the territory became “unusable” following “an Israeli airstrike to an adjacent building.”

“We don’t know what’s going to happen to these women and their newborn babies,” Ammal Awadallah, Executive Director of the PFPPA stated — notably using the term “newborn babies” instead of “fetuses.”

“Our options to provide referrals to hospitals are decreasing by the hour,” she lamented. “I can’t stress enough how dire the situation is and how desperately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza.”

An IPPF spokesperson told Newsweek that the organization is seeking a “safer location to relocate within Gaza” to continue “delivering services.” Newsweek also reports that the IPPF has abortion centers in the Israeli-controlled Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Halhoul in the West Bank. The pro-abortion Israel Family Planning Association primarily helps Jewish women who are seeking to kill their unborn children.

While many users on X, formerly Twitter, suggested God’s providence was at work in the building’s destruction, there is nothing that indicates the strike was done to prevent the abortion of pre-born children. Israel itself loosened regulations on abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the U.S. in June 2022. The Associated Press reports that abortion is “widely available” in the country and is “far less controversial” than in America.

Dr. Alvaro Bermejo serves as the Director-General of the IPPF. In a statement released earlier this month, he said that the IPPF is “devastated by the loss of civilian lives” in the conflict. Apparently unaware of the irony of his remarks, he also boasted about the “enormous gains” his organization has made in “life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare” in the Middle East