At an International Family Planning Summit last week, the UK announced they would be devoting over one billion pounds sterling to fund abortion and contraception around the world. International Development Secretary Priti Patel acknowledged the tax funds would pay for what she called “safe abortions.” The claim that millions of women in the developing world are clamouring for abortion and contraception has been hotly disputed by activists. Obianuju Ekeocha of Culture of Life Africa told the BBC that African women generally are pro-life and are not asking for contraception but for more basic necessities such as water. Contraception and abortion is a “Western solution” to African poverty, she said, accusing liberals of colonialism. “I don’t think that any Western country has a right to pay for abortions in an African country, especially when the majority of people don’t want abortion … that then becomes a form of ideological colonization,” she said. She warned that the “very fabric” of an African nation will be “shredded” by Western funding of abortion-promoting groups like Marie Stopes. “Most of the African cultures across the different African countries consider abortion the destruction of human life,” Ekeocha told LifeSiteNews.