In a recent article, youth-led organization The Culture Project highlighted the connection between a porn magnate, international abortions and, by extension, human trafficking.

The Culture Project is an organization dedicated “to upholding the dignity and potential of every human person, especially in regard to our sexuality.” As part of that mission, the organization recently highlighted the large donation to the pro-abortion group Marie Stopes International by porn magnate Phil Harvey, who operates one of Americans largest e-commerce shop of sex toys, condoms and erotica.

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is an international pro-abortion group that claims to “provide the contraception and safe abortion services that enables women all over the world to choose their own futures.” But the organization also has deep connections with the U.N. Population Fund, which promotes abortion in unstable countries and the enforcement of China’s one-child policy.

Harvey is also a board member of MSI and has spent much of his philanthropic efforts supporting family planning and population control measures. Goals that are not unlike those of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

“[In] the pornography industry and the abortion industry, [they promote]…the empowerment for women, but it is actually a false form of empowerment,” Lindsay Fay, a mission team manager for The Culture Project, said in an interview.

There is a definite connection between human trafficking, pornography and abortion. All these industries feed each other, and that applies both here in the United States and abroad as well. As the Family Research Council explains it, pornography increases the demand for sexually explicit content, which results in the sexual exploitation of women and children, human trafficking and, inevitably, abortion as well.

A couple years ago, as part of an assignment for Samaritan’s Purse in Uganda, I was able to interview four women that had been victims of human trafficking and sexual violence. Their experiences were harrowing, emotional, violent and utterly heartbreaking. Three of the four I interviewed had children as a result of their experience, and three also became infected with HIV. One had seen another woman killed while being trafficked, and another had been so traumatized by the experience she couldn’t even talk about it. The scars, both physical and emotional, were incredibly real.

Though I don’t remember these women discussing abortion, and it could be something they didn’t even want to mention, it is likely that they knew of women who had been forced to have abortions in order to continue working. Human trafficking and pornography feed off the exploitation of women and children, and abortion is often seen as an “easy fix” for a woman who’s become pregnant while being trafficked. While the evidence of that happening abroad is more difficult to track, it’s something that happens frequently in the United States.

According to one study by the Beazley Institute, with is part of the Loyola University in Chicago, 66 human-trafficking victims in the United States had a cumulative 114 abortions. The situation abroad is likely similar.

Shockingly, MSI isn’t concerned by this connection and stands by Harvey and the industry he supports.

“Phil Harvey has spent his life defending sexual and reproductive health and rights and has played a significant role in expanding access for women across the world. We are proud that he continues to contribute to the organization,” MSI said in a statement.

This goes to show that in the United States or abroad, abortionists and advocates do not support women’s rights, but instead are bedfellows of those that profit from the exploitation of other human beings.