The folks at C-FAM have been doing a wonderful job and have provided a wonderful service by tracking issues concerning human life at the United Nations (UN). Their “Friday Report” is a “must read” for anyone who is interested in a quick, weekly update concerning these issues.
One “beneath the radar” effort at the UN that C-FAM has been tracking is the long-term strategy on the part of UN officials and agencies to make abortion legal internationally. For example, last summer—during the months when UN press coverage is minimal—the UN Secretariat released a report from the UN Human Rights Council calling on all nations to accept that “women and girls must be granted access to legal abortion” in order that they might “fully enjoy their human rights.”
UN Special Rapporteur, Anand Grover, wrote the report which links abortion on demand with the fundamental right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Grover noted:
Criminal laws penalizing and restricting induced abortion are the paradigmatic examples of impermissible barriers to the realization of women’s right to health and must be eliminated….States must take measures to ensure that legal and safe abortion services are available, accessible, and of good quality. Safe abortions, however, will not immediately be available upon decriminalization unless States create conditions under which they may be provided. These conditions include establishing available and accessible clinics; the provision of additional training for physicians and health-care workers; enacting licensing requirements and ensuring the availability of the latest and safest medicines and equipment.
How far the UN’s mission has “progressed” (or has it really wandered astray?) since the 1950s when its focus was primarily upon the noble goals of promoting world peace, feeding the world’s children, and improving world health!
Today, “world peace” seems to imply advocating the murder of unborn infants, thus decreasing hunger among the world’s children and making medicines—like artificial forms of birth control and abortofacients—-a “human right” for women.
Interestingly, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, introduces Grover’s report, stating that he “has the honour” of presenting the report to the UN General Assembly. That’s hardly in keeping with the UN’s official stance of neutrality on abortion. But, then, so also is Grover’s report.
To read the C-FAM report or to subscribe to it, click on the following link:
Well done! I was thinking about writing about this. Anand Grover is an Indian ambulance chaser with absolutely no expertise in regard to medical care. What he is, however, is a perfect reflection of many current Western elite attitudes. He has championed in India homosexual rights and the rights of “sex workers”.
http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2008/july/20080711specialrapporteur/
This is precisely the type of individual that the UN will put into positions of authority, someone who will completely reflect the current intellectual prejudices of the majority of the “chattering classes” in the West. Gee, maybe that global Authority so pined for by certain bureaucrats in the Vatican isn’t all it’s cracked up to be from a Catholic point of view.
Some governments have spoken out against Grover’s report:
http://catholiclane.com/governments-condemn-un-official%E2%80%99s-attempt-to-create-a-right-to-abortion/
Of course the US, under Barack Obama, has not done so and will not do so.
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