March closes each year with lofty speeches about women, dignity, equality, and justice. The United Nations’ International Women’s Month invites the world to celebrate women’s achievements and to confront the hardships women still endure. At the United Nations, the Commission on the Status of Women claims to do the same. Yet this March ended with […]
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March closes each year with lofty speeches about women, dignity, equality, and justice. The United Nations’ International Women’s Month invites the world to celebrate women’s achievements and to confront the hardships women still endure. At the United Nations, the Commission on the Status of Women claims to do the same.
Yet this March ended with a grim reminder of how badly our culture still fails women: Kermit Gosnell is dead, but the abortion industry lies that protected him are very much alive. Gosnell died this month at age 85 while serving life sentences for murdering babies born alive and for the death of a patient, Karnamaya Mongar.
Karnamaya Mongar should be at the center of any honest conversation about women’s dignity. She was poor. She was vulnerable. She was an immigrant. She was the kind of woman radical international activists claim to champion.
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Yet at Gosnell’s clinic, she was handed forms she could not read, pumped full of dangerous drugs by unqualified staff, left without proper monitoring, and then trapped in a building so filthy and chaotic that emergency responders lost precious minutes trying to get her out.
That is not women’s healthcare. That is lethal contempt dressed up as choice.
The thing is, Gosnell was never just one monster in one filthy building; he was not an “outlier.” His 30 years running the Women’s Medical Society exposed the moral rot at the heart of abortion ideology. He preyed on poor women. He operated in squalor. He injured women, exploited them, and, in Mongar’s case, left a refugee mother dead.
Yet for years, many who call themselves champions of women showed little interest in the violence done to women under the banner of “choice” and sexual rights (whatever that means). The same political movement that shouts endlessly about women’s rights spent years averting its eyes from a man who butchered both children and their mothers.
Then there was the annual spectacle at the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, which, as always, rang so hollow. The 2026 session ran from March 9 to 19, with a stated focus on justice for women and girls and on removing the barriers they face. Noble words. But the women most loudly flying the banner of so-called sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) do not want to talk about the most obvious assaults on women and girls.
They do not want to talk about abortionists who maim women. They do not want to talk about the coercion that drives abortion. They do not want to talk about the girls who never get born because they are girls.
And that silence is damning.
For decades, scholars and international agencies have warned about the catastrophe of “missing women” and missing girls, driven in part by sex-selective abortion and deep discrimination against females. The scale is staggering. Estimates have long placed the number in the tens of millions, with some analyses putting the figure above 100 million.
UNFPA has reported nearly 1.2 million “missing” female births annually in affected countries. This is one of the greatest mass injustices against women in modern history, and yet the SRHR crowd rarely speaks of it with anything close to the urgency it deserves.
Why? Because this truth destroys their slogans and their profits.
They claim to defend women while ignoring women killed by abortionists like Gosnell. They claim to defend girls while shrugging at the annihilation of more than one hundred million daughters through sex-selection abortion. They claim to care for poor women while reducing their needs to abortion access. A hungry woman needs food. A woman hauling water for miles needs clean water nearby.
A mother in a rural village needs shelter, sanitation, transport, prenatal care, antibiotics, a trained birth attendant, and a clinic she can reach before a hemorrhage kills her. She does not need rich Western elitist NGOs parachuting in to tell her that her liberation depends on easier access to ending the life of her child.
That is the fraud at the center of the SRHR crowd. It speaks the language of compassion while serving ideology and its bottom line. It talks about empowerment while defending an industry that has left women bleeding, abandoned, traumatized, and in some cases dead.
It claims to advance equality while tolerating the lethal elimination of girls before birth. It lectures the developing world while ignoring the basic realities that actually threaten women every day: hunger, unsafe water, preventable disease, lack of obstetric care, and crushing poverty.
So as March ends, let us say what should be obvious.
If the United Nations truly wants to honor women, it should start by defending women from violence in all its forms, including the violence of abortion profiteers.
If the Commission on the Status of Women truly wants justice for girls, it should confront sex-selection abortion with moral clarity.
If the SRHR NGOs truly cared about women in the developing world, they would spend less time promoting abortion and more time fighting for the necessities that make life possible.
Kermit Gosnell is dead. The girls lost to sex-selection abortion are gone. Karnamaya Mongar is still dead. Women in poor nations still wait for clean water, decent clinics, and real medical care. The question is whether those who dominate the conversation at the UN will continue to serve ideology or finally tell the truth.
Women deserve better than propaganda. Girls deserve better than elimination. And the world deserves better than a women’s movement that cannot bring itself to defend the most vulnerable women and girls of all.
To their great shame, the UN’s International Women’s Month is really nothing more than a hypocritical exercise in futility.
For one, I’m glad the charade is over for this year.
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the director of Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
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