Against what it described as a "backdrop of peril and promise," the Guttmacher Institute recently released its 2026-2029 strategic plan, which referred to an "unrelenting assault on reproductive freedom after the Dobbs decision."

Key Takeaways:

• Guttmacher's new strategic plan claims it has 25 international and domestic partners in furthering its agenda — and fails to name even one of those partners.

• Its alleged plan is to "combat misinformation and disinformation" — even as the organization spreads its own propaganda about the abortion pill.

• The organization — which is financially backed by the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Society of Family Planning, the Tara Health Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, and more — unrealistically portrays the pro-life movement as "well-funded" while neglecting to mention Warren Buffett's billions supporting Big Abortion.

• Guttmacher also claims that since Dobbs, Big Abortion has been under "extreme stress," and a psychological, emotional ,and spiritual "dominance of toxicity."

The Details:

The new strategic plan

Guttmacher's 2026-2029 strategy begins:

We write at a moment of extraordinary peril for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy—when decades of progress are being undone and communities in the United States and abroad are seeing their rights infringed upon and access to health care diminished. It is a moment that demands urgent action.

The document is not significantly different from past strategies; it is full of self-congratulation and flowery language, and Guttmacher's focus remains unchanged: promoting abortion and contraception.

The pro-abortion organization vowed to:

• Take direct aim at the pernicious threat posed by misinformation and disinformation.

• Advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally through equitable partnership.

• Drive progress in the United States by strengthening our capacity to support work at the state level.

• Increase our reach and multiply our impact through digital innovation.

They plan to achieve these goals through the use of...

• Peer-reviewed papers 

• Policy analyses 

• Op-eds 

• Open data tools 

• Partner capacity strengthening 

Unnamed 'partners'

The 2026-2029 strategy was "affirmed through consultation with a wide array of partners and supporters," Guttmacher claimed, stating (emphasis added):

To develop the strategies in this plan, we engaged 25 domestic and international partners across those disciplines, as well as our staff and Board, to help us identify the greatest threats to our work in the next few years—and the best opportunities for Guttmacher to address them by leveraging its expertise and resources.

Guttmacher mentioned its "partners" multiple times without specifically naming one, claiming these partners are "global, regional and within individual countries; as well as US federal, state and local advocates, providers, donors, policymakers and researchers."

A short list of those who fund (2019, 2020) Guttmacher is revealing:

• Ford Foundation

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

• Society of Family Planning

• Tara Health Foundation

• United Nations Foundation

Since 2023, the Susan Thomas Buffett Foundation (Warren Buffett) has granted nearly $20M to Guttmacher.

Strategic "Priority": Disrupt Misinformation and Disinformation

Guttmacher has called abortion "essential" and now plans to "Disrupt Misinformation and Disinformation (MDI)" by (emphases added):

• Improv[ing] understanding of MDI’s impact on SRHR through original research.

• Launch[ing] a digital clearinghouse as a one-stop shop for trusted facts.

• Train[ing] policymakers to identify and counter MDI.

• Engag[ing] new audiences, including influencers.

The organization — directly funded by foundations (like the Packard and Buffett Foundations) which are investors in the abortion pill's manufacturers — has long been promoting propaganda of its own to help expand access to the deadly drug.

Guttmacher vowed to "provide leadership in pre-bunking, debunking and challenging false narratives about abortion and contraception before they are enshrined in policies," despite never showing an actual abortion, opposing laws that educate on fetal development, and failing to inform women about the risks of abortion.

Combat "strong, well-funded opposition"

Laughably, the Guttmacher Institute portrays the pro-life movement as a "well-funded opposition." This, coming from the side funded by billionaires Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and others, is bordering on absurd (emphasis added):

Since 2022, when the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal constitutional protection for abortion, those advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights have been facing an extraordinary challenge: How to advance a progressive agenda within a rapidly changing landscape where a strong, well-funded opposition is radically restricting fundamental rights.

In the United States, Dobbs served as a crowning moment—though not the endgame—for the anti-abortion movement and has ushered in an era of legal and personal chaos and confusion, for providers, policymakers, and, most critically, for people seeking abortions. Since the ruling, the opposition’s assault has shown no signs of slowing...

Guttmacher claimed that the "unrelenting assault on reproductive freedom after the Dobbs decision" has created "extreme stress" on those "working within SRHR on every level" (emphasis added):

Equally pressing for those working in the United States is fending off the unrelenting assault on reproductive freedom after the Dobbs decision, especially in the states where abortion opponents are doubling down on extremism.

The assault takes many forms: criminalization, prosecution and harassment of patients and providers; operational costs and constraints for clinic administrators; logistical and financial obstacles for patients needing to travel to other states; and increasing attacks on contraception.

These efforts are contributing to extreme levels of stress in the entire sexual and reproductive health ecosystem. As one partner put it, there is a “dominance of toxicity” affecting all who are working within SRHR on every level— psychological, emotional and spiritual.

Still, Guttmacher claimed its "complex ecosystem" encompasses a "wide range of actors" which they plan to activate against pro-life efforts.

Focus on State Policy

Guttmacher vows to "[s]hape both national- and state-level discourse that supports state advocates in achieving proactive goals or fighting restrictive efforts."

Its strategy states in part:

Guttmacher will ensure we meaningfully influence federal and state policy outcomes through our own research, communications and policy work and by deliberately focusing on how we can buttress partners and state coalitions with the evidence they need to advance their priorities.

... Guttmacher will be the trusted source advocates and policymakers turn to for state-level data on reproductive health care delivery, access and utilization, and for analyzing how state and federal legal and policy developments impact delivery of care and the people who need it.

But should an organization so clearly ideological in its stridently pro-abortion aims really serve as a "trusted source?

Guttmacher's goal is to "Drive Progress in the United States Through Responsive, State-Specific Resources":

• Build a stakeholder-informed US research agenda

• Generate new data responsive to state and federal partners’ needs

• Provide timely resources and technical support to state advocates

• Refine online platforms to share state-level data

Innovate Digital Outreach

Guttmacher is looking to innovate using Artificial Intelligence:

To remain relevant, discoverable, credible and influential in the digital knowledge ecosystem, Guttmacher will innovate our digital outreach and make strategic investments in our infrastructure, AI access, data governance and visibility.

Without such investment, Guttmacher’s research and knowledge risks being underutilized in key conversations about SRHR worldwide.

But AI is not always accurate. Even actors inside Big Abortion have referred to an alleged Al "Abortion Misinformation Problem."

The Backstory:

Who is the Guttmacher Institute?

The Guttmacher Institute, founded in 1968 as as the Center for Family Planning Program Development, claims online to be "a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide."

The organization was renamed in 1977 after Alan F. Guttmacher, a former Planned Parenthood president and past Vice President of the American Eugenics Society (AES). He was a population control zealot who was instrumental in leading Planned Parenthood to begin committing abortions.

Guttmacher's first president (Frederick S. Jaffe, listed on an archived website now removed), was once described as “very abusive” by a longtime colleague. He also authored a controversial memo advocating eugenics through compulsory sterilization and abortion.

Guttmacher is a former “special affiliate” of Planned Parenthood which has funneled millions into Planned Parenthood's coffers, and is funded by the Buffett and Packard Foundations, which were early investors in the abortion pill. It is also funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, which joined the others in funding abortion pill studies and the discredited Turnaway Study.

The BILLIONAIRES behind ABORTION

Today, the Guttmacher Board of Directors still boasts former Planned Parenthood leaders.

Previous Strategy

• 2025: Guttmacher's November 2025 policy report called upon state and federal lawmakers to target parental rights for the purpose of expanding abortion access for minors as well as expanding abortion funding.

• 2021: Guttmacher's demands to politicians referred to “abortion access” as the “starting point,” urging Congress to roll out “swift and robust federal action” on abortion to create “a bolder, brighter future — one in which everyone can obtain affordable abortion care with dignity and on the timeline that is right for them.”

• 2019: Guttmacher's 2019 strategy was not to decrease the number of abortions but to "protect or expand access to abortion care,” by pushing statutory and constitutional measures to codify abortion, increasing taxpayer-funded abortion including forcing insurance companies to cover abortion, eliminate informed consent, increase abortion customers, pushing “self-managed abortions”

Consider This:

Guttmacher alleges that "decades of progress... being undone" is creating "extreme stress" on promoters of abortion, even as the abortion count increases. This strains credulity.

But the real stress is an increased death count of preborn human beings, due in large part to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) enablement of "mail-order" abortion pills.

In addition, increased abortion funding, expansive abortion laws which now champion abortion to birth, and the misinformation that abortion is "essential" reveal that it is the sacredness of life that is truly under attack.