A new report from a United Nations official claimed abortion as a “human right” and calls for decriminalization of and the removal of legal barriers related to abortion.
Liberals are pleased as punch and believe this will change the world.
RH Reality Check was overjoyed by the report:
The Rapporteur is taking unprecedented steps and now governments and civil society must (continue to) do their part to fully protect, respect and realize women’s sexual rights and reproductive rights.
The Health and Nutrition Development Society also acted like it was Christmas for abortionists (without all that Savior being born stuff), calling it, “a milestone in the struggle for the full realization of the right to health for all.”
The report contains clear and detailed recommendations for States, including a call to immediately decriminalize abortion, ensure access to a full range of modern contraceptive methods, and facilitate access to full, complete, and accurate information on sexual and reproductive health.
Amnesty International called it “groundbreaking.”
Stephanie Schlitt, Amnesty International’s Researcher and Policy Advisor on Gender, wrote,
“For almost eight years at Amnesty International I have worked to support research and campaigning on gender-related issues. I am in the middle of my first pregnancy just now. Being here at the UN to see this report being presented feels all the more poignant because of this. As I read the report, my thoughts turned to the girls and women all over the world whose experience of sexuality and reproduction is shaped by laws and policies that allow the state, and the people around them, to subject them to pressure, fear, intimidation, pain, suffering and punishment.”
She added, “Let’s hope more governments hear these voices, adhere to their international legal obligations and take the actions recommended in the report presented today!”
Never mind that many governments dismissed the “high level UN bureaucrat’s claim” according to LifeNews.com.
But pro-aborts see this report as the first step towards a mandated global pro-abortion policy. And you know what, they’re probably right.
October 28, 2011 at 5:43 pm
And yet the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace recommends that the UN be appointed as the "global financial authority." *sigh*
October 28, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Oh, the UN has been edging toward this for years. They just decided
to take the mask off.
What will happen when/if the next US president reinstates the Mexico
City policy which denies federal funding of abortion? What happens if
someday the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade?
October 28, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Women have no sexual and reproductive rights unless given to them by our Creator. Our Creator has given us the standard for life, that all men are created equal and the Ten Commandments to uphold the standard of Life. UN officials need to learn to read and be removed from office if they refuse to learn to read.
October 28, 2011 at 6:38 pm
@Clinton: Roe v Wade has no legal standing as the abortion decision has uprooted our Declaration of Independence, one of our founding documents and founding principles. The Law of the Land as our Constitution is called is based upon The Declaration of Independence. There is no Law of the Land without one and both.
October 28, 2011 at 6:41 pm
And Amnesty International was founded to free political prisoners, not to tyrannize human existence in the womb. Amnesty International has become an evil spirit.
I stll hope and pray all 55 million aborted souls visit Obama this Halloween night…and stephanie schlitt
October 28, 2011 at 6:46 pm
melody said…
And yet the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace recommends that the UN be appointed as the "global financial authority." *sigh*
If the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace recommends a "global financial authority" it will and must be under God. This is a major shift in the UN's atheistic agenda.
October 28, 2011 at 7:21 pm
"a milestone in the struggle for the full realization of the right to health for all." except unborn babies, who only have those rights if their mothers say so.
October 28, 2011 at 7:34 pm
"…sexuality and reproduction is shaped by laws and policies that allow the state, and the people around them, to subject them to pressure, fear, intimidation, pain, suffering and punishment."
Is she referring to the husbands, parents, and or boyfriends of girls who get pregnant and pressure/intimidate/coerce them into getting an abortion against their will?
October 28, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Hooray! Let's hope this wonderful global authority finally gets some "teeth" in order to force the nations of the world to do the bidding of the European utopian socialists who run it. Oh, and college education is also a "right." So are cheap loans. And healthcare. And debt forgiveness. And owning a home. And crossing any border. And gay adoption! And weenie-whacking for the transgendered! Does anyone else have a desire or proclivity heretofore unfulfilled? Step right up!
And guess who gets to pay for all of these "rights?" You. Because, by definition, if someone has a "right," another person has the obligation to fulfill it.
"To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world political authority.." Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
October 28, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Been asking this for years – somebody prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that a human being doesn't exist at the moment of conception. Women's sexual and reproductive rights be d****d – no right includes the taking of an innocent human life on demand. And absolutely nobody has proved to me that that isn't what's happening during an abortion.
October 29, 2011 at 2:00 pm
@Proudhillbilly: Even the Supreme Court for the United States of America did not and does not answer your question in Roe v. Wade and now, miscarriage of Justice. Abortion is miscarriage of Justice. Do citizens have to fund miscarriage of Justice, forced on the culture, on society, on the state?
Both Blackmun and Brennan never answered the two questions essential to Justice: Is the child in the womb a person? Is human existence the criterion for the objective ordering of human rights found in The Declaration of Independence? Ignorance? No way, nobody can be this ignorant without being criminally insane, much less a Supreme Court Justice.(???)
October 29, 2011 at 2:16 pm
The quote from Stephanie Schlitt is truly twisted. A pregnant woman promoting the glories of world-wide abortion on demand?Somebody should ask her whether she would consider aborting her own child. Betcha not. Sounds like a slimy double standard to me: Abortion is for "those people", you know the ones I mean, the . . . "underprivileged" . . . , not for members of my elite club . . . you know, the best and the brightest . . . . Poignant indeed. Sorry . . . I need a moment . . . I'm getting all choked up . . . .
October 29, 2011 at 3:10 pm
So, if the victims of state-sponsored (read: Sharia Law) female genital mutilation, rape, forced marriage, etc. were to come before the UN to demand that international authorities do something to help the women in such cultures, the UN's response would be, "Hey, you can have an abortion, what else do you want??"
-Elodie