U.S. Pushes Pro-Abortion Language at U.N.
The United States Mission to the United Nations is being accused of pressuring pro-life countries to sign onto a document on maternal mortality that stresses abortion and birth control.
Peter Smith with the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and Jeanne Head of the National Right to Life Committee say the U.S. delegation, at the direction of the Obama administration, is pressuring other countries to drop their objections to pro-abortion language in the document.
“We were told by different people that the U.S. was applying pressure to these countries who were pro-life,” Smith said.
Head agreed: “Some were not allowed to put things in; they were pressured not to put things in. I would say it was pressure by stealth.”
Measures to reduce maternal mortality have been known and practiced in the West for decades. They include blood transfusions, antibiotics for infection and treatment for high blood pressure. Life advocates are quick to add they do not include abortion.
Contact: Steve Jordahl
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: March 24, 2010
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