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Manipulation of the UN System
to Promote Abortion Must Stop!

To The Family,

We are deeply concerned about recent developments at the United Nations regarding the promotion of abortion. Various entities within the UN system have ramped up their abortion propaganda campaign despite the fact that UN documents call for protection of life “before as well as after birth.”  One of the main strategies abortion rights activists are using is to manipulate the UN system by twisting provisions in existing treaties that UN member nations signed onto decades ago.

One of the most egregious examples of this is a carefully crafted report the UN Secretary General recently submitted to the UN General Assembly. It was written by a United Nations “Special Rapporteur,” Anand Grover, on the “right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.”  (UN Special Rapporteurs are supposedly unbiased experts in their fields.)

Sounds nice doesn’t it?   Everybody has right to health, right?

Well, according to the UN almost everybody does, unless you happen to be a human being residing in your mother’s womb. In that case, you are considered by one UN Committee to be a source of cruel and inhumane torture to your mother who has a right to abort you so she can have better health.

I am not making this up!  That is exactly the logic of the UN.

Mr. Grover’s report, which will be considered by the UN General Assembly, claims that laws restricting abortion violate a woman’s “right to health,” which, he says, includes a right to “sexual and reproductive health.”  He further claims that this supposed “right to sexual and reproductive health includes an unrestricted right to abortion, which he says includes a right to have governments make abortion “accessible” to all women.

In other words, his report carefully builds on itself using circular logic in an attempt to establish a right to government-funded abortions for all. He labels laws that limit abortion “impermissible barriers to the realization of women’s right to health” that “must be eliminated.”  He further claims, “States must take measures to ensure that legal and safe abortion services are available, accessible, and of good quality.”

You would think that a UN expert charged with outlining what the world must do to improve the health of its citizens might focus on nutrition, clean water, sanitary conditions, inoculations, combating major diseases and things that are causing people to die en masse.

But no, Mr. Grover’s report is focused almost exclusively on legalizing abortion and promoting other controversial issues.

His report directly attacks national sovereignty and religious freedom when he states, “Public morality cannot serve as a justification for enactment or enforcement of laws that may result in human rights violations.”  [Read: if they restrict abortion or comprehensive sexuality education.]  The report also falsely claims that all laws must be “evidenced-based,” which is UN-speak for saying laws cannot be based on religious and moral values.

This runs counter to Article 29 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the right of nations to establish laws that meet “the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.”

His report also slams abstinence education and promotes condoms and sexual freedom, telling governments they must abolish parental consent laws.

He then falsely asserts that “comprehensive education and information on sexual and reproductive health is an essential component of “the right to health” and “the right to education.”  Click here to read our report on the serious harms of the kind of “comprehensive sexuality education” Mr. Grover is claiming is a human right.

In support of his position Grover references a controversial report by another UN Special Rapporteur on “the right to education.”  This report was so controversial it was rejected by the General Assembly. It was rejected by member nations largely because it claimed governments are obligated to provide comprehensive sexuality education that is sensitive to “sexual diversity” among other things.  (Click here to read our policy brief on this outrageous report on the “right to education.”)

If all this isn’t bad enough, a UN committee monitoring compliance of states parties to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment just told Ireland it must enact laws to legalize abortion to be in compliance with this treaty.  (See page 7 of this document.)  This, despite the fact that Ireland protects the unborn in its constitution.

So now the UN considers pregnancy to be cruel and inhumane!

Whatever happened to motherhood being entitled to special protection as called for in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

This continues a pattern of UN committees trying to reinterpret carefully negotiated UN treaties to somehow include previously undiscovered rights. They are just inventing such things out of thin air because these UN treaties say absolutely nothing about abortion.

In yet another abuse of the UN system, about half of the UN member states that just came under UN scrutiny through the  UN’s Universal Periodic Review were questioned regarding their laws restricting abortion even though the treaties they are bound by say nothing about abortion.

Again, this is just one more way the UN system is being abused and misused to promote abortion.

Finally, a resolution on maternal mortality that was just negotiated by the UN’s Human Rights Council openly promotes the legalization of abortion, claiming this is the best way to save women’s lives.

The debate around these negotiations included many false assertions such as where abortion is legalized fewer women die.  (Click here to see our policy brief on maternal mortality that refutes many of the false claims made during these negotiations.)  It was reported that when delegates complained about the false claims and objected to the pro-abortion language their positions were largely ignored in the final draft.

This widespread abuse of the UN system to promote abortion must be stopped.

We will be working with UN member nations over the next several months to counteract these dangerous developments and expose these abuses of the UN system.  This aggressive promotion of abortion runs counter to the laws and cultures of many of these UN member nations and has no basis whatsoever in international law.

We will update you soon and tell you how you can help us stop this onslaught.

Sincerely,

“And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters.” Mosiah 5: 7

Sharon Slater
For The Family