“What are the most effective global health charities if you’re pronatalist or ‘pro-life’?” by Jack_S🔸

This post is written as part of the Draft Amnesty Week; it's an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Most of the figures here are rough, “best-guess” estimates, so please suggest improvements! Summary Most global health charities and evaluations focus on Lives Saved or DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), which generally only focus on post-birth outcomes However, according to (in my view) reasonable assumptions, birth is an arbitrary dividing line, and unborn children and potential lives also have moral worth I divide worldviews into a simplified "pro-life" person-affecting worldview (early life has moral worth, foetuses count as people) and a simplified "pronatalist" non-person-affecting worldview (the more humans, the better, regardless of whether they exist). I also consider an anti-natalist worldview briefly for comparison I focus on global health interventions, and find that: If unborn lives are given moral weight, many mainstream interventions - malaria prevention [...] ---Outline:(00:24) Summary(01:44) Overview Table(02:05) Intro(03:07) Why research this?(05:05) View A: Early life has moral worth; foetuses count as people(06:19) Pregnancy Loss Numbers & Causes(08:26) Hypertensive Disorders(09:28) Maternal malnutrition and anaemia(11:39) Infections (other than malaria)(13:46) Malaria(14:49) So, AMF?(17:30) Abortion and explicitly pro-life charities(19:46) View B: More people = better world; potential lives are intrinsically valuable(21:20) STI screening and treatment (chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis)(22:35) Schistosomiasis control(23:59) Safe delivery and post-abortion care(25:33) View C... What if youre anti-natalist?(26:46) Conclusion --- First published: October 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZukwCrrMFcZ8gencR/what-are-the-most-effective-global-health-charities-if-you --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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