Three years ago, nations all over the world formed an alliance to reject progressive ideological colonization. They chose to defend their right to promote women’s health and build healthy families in a way that would truly serve their people, free of foreign ideological subterfuge.
Thankfully, they and their progressive sympathizers have failed. On its third anniversary, the GCD is stronger than it has ever been—it’s thriving, innovating, and adding new members every year.
This framework will aim to help GCD nations and any friend of the alliance make low-cost, evidence-based interventions available for women and families through the health providers already embedded in their communities.
This is what progress in women’s health care looks like: ambassadors from all over the world joining women’s health advocates, foreign government officials, and members of Congress to commit to an international health care framework that honors life and respects national sovereignty.
This stands in stark contrast to the alarmingly parochial view of American progressives, who see the establishment of a “right to abortion” as the universal summit of women’s health care.
GCD member nations reject such a right. They articulate and embody an alternative vision of health care, one in which women and children are cared for—and cared for in ways that respect their culture and way of life.
The GCD provides a platform for this alternative vision to grow, develop, and gain political legitimacy. It’s more than a document. It’s a united commitment to grounding health care in the protection of life, strong families, human flourishing, and national sovereignty.
It’s deeply unfortunate that such a commitment is considered “alternative” on the stage of global politics at all. It ought to be the mainstream position, and many of our leaders agree.
Women’s health care must be holistic and address each stage of a person’s life. Advancing women’s safety, optimal health, and happiness looks different for each woman, each family, and each nation. It’s deeply personal and deeply cultural.
Women around the world—and the nations within which they live, work, and form families—ought to be allowed to make decisions about human flourishing without political coercion. The longer we spend in the current ideological global hegemony, the more they suffer for want of real care.
That’s why the GCD is more important now than ever before. It’s an effective catalyst to foster meaningful progress in women’s health on a global scale—a rare safe haven for nations that deeply value health, life, and family to stand together against the false narratives that conflate ideology with genuine health gains for women.
It’s time for the United States to rejoin this global alliance. It’s time for us to collectively solidify our commitment to advancing the optimal health of women, girls, and families around the world—regardless of cultural, economic, religious, or governmental differences.
