SD's Hepatica ends collaboration with anti-abortion organization

The Sweden Democrats went to the polls to clean up aid and shut down the aid agency Sida.

At the same time, the party's own aid organization Hepatica, and board chairman Björn Söder, have been fighting for a long time to get part of the so-called PAO support, which is given to party-affiliated organizations. This year, Hepatica was entitled to SEK 23 million, even though Sida assesses the risks as "extreme".

One of Hepatica's partners was the Institute for Conservative Action, IAC. On its website, the organization wrote that they "want to protect life from the moment of conception" and that they support the "natural family". The chairman of the IAC was Heloísa Wolf Bolsonaro, daughter-in-law of Brazil's imprisoned ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, DN could reveal.

But according to Sida, Swedish aid funds must not go to organizations that oppose the rights of women and girls.

After DN's review, the authority pulled the emergency brake.

The collaboration with IAC has now ended, according to Hepatica's communications manager Pontus Persson.

- We haven't had much contact with them. We haven't had much of a response. There was no project, no conference for example, that was worth supporting, he says.

What kind of business did they have that you wanted to support?

– Conferences to organize youth activities, i.e. political youth activities.

Pontus Persson does not know how Hepatica came into contact with IAC or why they wanted to support their work in particular.

Has IAC ever had a business?

- They have had operations, but due to various reasons that I do not know, they have reduced their operations.

How has the contact with IAC been?

- It is the project manager who has been in contact with them. What kind of contact they have had, I do not know, but what I have been told is that the business has been scaled back and therefore it will not continue.

According to Pontus Persson, aid money that was supposed to go to IAC will now be redistributed to projects in Ukraine.

DN has sought Björn Söder, who has not returned.