Reproductive rights advocates on Friday denounced reports of an extremist Trump appointee pushing anti-choice policies at the United Nations’ annual conference on women’s rights.

“Someone who doesn’t respect American law and who opposes the principles of gender equality should not be empowered to negotiate on behalf of the U.S. government,” Jessica Stern, executive director of OutRight Action International, told the Independent, which first reported on statements made by Bethany Kozma, a USAID official at the Commission on the Status of Women on Thursday. “The U.S. government must prevent this wildcard from subverting American law in the negotiations.”

Kozma, senior adviser in USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, told other national delegations at the conference that the U.S. is “a pro-life country,” and pushed for the elimination of the term “modern contraceptives” in the meeting’s outcome document in order to promote abstinence-only education policies.