There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold?

The answer lies in a deliberate, decadeslong campaign to transform abortion from a contested moral and political question into an alleged human right. Through ideologically driven multilateral agencies, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and allied scholars, abortion has been steadily reframed: first as “safe, legal, and rare,” then as a matter of “reproductive rights,” later as part of “sexual and reproductive health and rights,” and now as an alleged human right protected under international law.

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I have witnessed this campaign firsthand. As Regional Coordinator for the Institute for Women’s Health based in Guatemala, I have seen international institutions increasingly pressure Latin American countries to liberalize their abortion laws through advisory opinions and strategically selected legal cases. The recent “Beatriz” case against El Salvador is among the clearest examples of this effort to use international human rights........

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