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Abortion advocate Jeffrey Sachs appointed to Vatican academy of social sciences

27 October 2021

by Maria Madise

On 25 October, the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Francis had appointed Professor Jeffrey Sachs as an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

The announcement included a brief curriculum vitae, which described Sachs as a “distinguished Professor… an economist and public policy analyst with expertise in sustainable development, economic development and poverty alleviation; he has taught at Harvard University and was director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; he is currently president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he is also a professor”.

Pro-life groups reacted with shock and disbelief when Sachs was first invited to the Vatican in 2015. Since then, his growing involvement with Rome has led to an expectation that he will feature prominently at any Holy See event where sustainable development and climate change are discussed. And in today’s Vatican, that means dozens of events in the past six years.

Professor Sachs, who is not a Catholic, is an outspoken advocate of global population control and the architect of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); he has served as a special advisor to the UN Secretary-Generals Ban-ki Moon and António Guterres on the SDGs.

Also known as the 2030 Agenda, the SDGs set 17 goals with 169 targets which member states are expected to achieve by 2030. At the time of their adoption, pro-life leaders strongly objected to the stated targets for Goal 3 and Goal 5 which call for universal access to reproductive health services, a term understood by the UN and many world governments as a euphemism for abortion and contraception.

Professor Sachs has repeatedly called for a reduction in fertility levels to address overpopulation and combat urgent environmental problems. In his 2008 book, Commonwealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, he argues that legalised abortion is a cost-effective way to eliminate “unwanted children” and reduce a country’s total fertility rates “by as much as half a child on average”.[1]


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