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March 8, 2018

A plan to set the UN straight on abortion

Flags at the United Nations
The pro-life movement cannot limit itself to focusing on the United States. Just as the abolitionists had their sights on dismantling a global slave trade, so too the pro-life movement must target the global abortion conglomerate of governments, philanthropists, international bureaucrats, academics, and faux "civil society" organizations they use as proxies. The goal must be to deprive it of domestic and international political and financial support, and eventually dismantle it.

So far, President Trump has followed the lead of the pro-life advocates behind the 1973 Helms Amendment and the 1984 Mexico City Policy. He reinstituted and expanded the Mexico City Policy. He has defunded the United Nations Population Fund. He has reproached a UN treaty body for seeking to manufacture an international right to abortion. He has insisted on important caveats in international agreements that include "sexual and reproductive health" to rule out international abortion rights and made reservations to UN agreements to that effect. But this should be just the beginning.

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