Part of the problem, I think, will be that this is such a highly politicised area that vague terms are often used so that it is not clear whether a charity is promoting abortion or not. I have seen a lot of this in developing countries in particular—family planning is promoted and contraception is the only element of this publicised—but abortion is promoted behind the scenes as well (because it is less glamorous and often illegal). All sorts of charities support abortion (in a variety of different ways) without many people realising—MSF, Oxfam, Water Aid, plausibly even groups like Christian Aid when you dig deep enough.
Of course none of this is specific evidence that FEM and MHI do so—but in general there is a pretty high prior probability that any given family planning organisation supports abortion in some way, and probably the presumption for anyone who opposes abortion is that family planning organisations have the burden of proving otherwise, given the prior probabilities. This may be unfair on those family planning organisations which genuinely don’t in any way support abortion—but unfortunately given the way the world is sometimes people have unfair burdens of proof.
I am not the best person to answer this question, but will do my best:
My understanding is that FEM only works through large public radio information raising campaigns. There is no behind the scenes where they would / could promote abortion that I know of. So I think it highly unlikely that they have done any work on abortion.
Maternal Health Initiative is a few months old. They are still at the scoping and research stage so I cannot comment on their plans.
Part of the problem, I think, will be that this is such a highly politicised area that vague terms are often used so that it is not clear whether a charity is promoting abortion or not. I have seen a lot of this in developing countries in particular—family planning is promoted and contraception is the only element of this publicised—but abortion is promoted behind the scenes as well (because it is less glamorous and often illegal). All sorts of charities support abortion (in a variety of different ways) without many people realising—MSF, Oxfam, Water Aid, plausibly even groups like Christian Aid when you dig deep enough.
Of course none of this is specific evidence that FEM and MHI do so—but in general there is a pretty high prior probability that any given family planning organisation supports abortion in some way, and probably the presumption for anyone who opposes abortion is that family planning organisations have the burden of proving otherwise, given the prior probabilities. This may be unfair on those family planning organisations which genuinely don’t in any way support abortion—but unfortunately given the way the world is sometimes people have unfair burdens of proof.
In case helpful note I comment below here: