'Reproductive rights' missing from U.N. treaties?
Pro-abortion groups are pushing to establish a right to abortion in every treaty that has emerged from the United Nations.
Amnesty International, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Center for Reproductive Rights have representatives appearing before the U.N. Committee Against Torture who are providing a briefing on reproductive rights.
"Essentially they want to convince the committee that there is a right to abortion contained within these treaties, even though the treaties don't mention the term 'reproductive rights' and don't speak at all about abortion," explains Terrence McKeegan, vice president if the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM).
He adds that the pro-abortion groups are actually trying to convince the panel to reinterpret the treaties so they will include abortion -- even those treaties signed by nations where abortion is illegal. He laments that these groups have had some success.
"We've seen these U.N. treaty bodies, when countries come before them to review their implementation of the treaties, they have actually pressured over a hundred countries to liberalize their abortion laws based on treaty commitments," McKeegan reports.
He says that goes against the principle of sovereignty, and it is also against international law. The C-FAM vice president wonders why a nation would even sign a U.N. treaty if a committee is allowed to come along and redefine it to mean something other than the original intent.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: May 15, 2010
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