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United Nations Children's and Women's Committees Promoting Abortion

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30, 2001, (LSN.ca) - The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) are two international covenants that created UN committees to oversee member countries' compliance. However, the UN committees have been stacked with radical feminists who use their positions to badger countries into the acceptance of abortion, and attack family values. Currently the CRC and CEDAW committees are meeting to hear the compliance reports of various countries. Examples of the pro-abortion activism of the Committee "experts" is recorded in the UN's own reporting on the sessions.

In taking up the report of Egypt Jan 19, a CEDAW committee expert tried to convince Mervat Tallawy, the Secretary-General of the Egyptian National Council for Women, to alter Egypt's law forbidding abortion. The UN report on the meeting says, "Another expert said that, because a severe punishment was envisioned for inducing abortions, a woman with severe hemorrhage might not seek medical treatment."

See the UN report at:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/wom1250.htm

Abortion was pushed and the Catholic Church bashed in the report on the CEDAW committee deliberations regarding Jamaica. On Jan 26, Executive Director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs of Jamaica, Glenda Simms presented her country's report to the committee. One UN "expert" is reported as noting "the pressure by the Church regarding patriarchal attitudes towards women and asked about the measures to promote the new family laws. As for the penalty of life imprisonment for abortion, she said that such severe measures could contribute to the high maternal death rate." Realizing full well that the UN committee was demanding action on the legalization of abortion, the UN report notes Simms responded, "the struggle for the right to an abortion would be an uphill battle. The medical profession was now discussing this, but the voice of the Catholic church was strong in this debate."

See the UN report at:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/wom1257.htm

Radical UN feminists have not limited their abortion advocacy to within the women's convention but also push for the killing of unborn children via the UN's children's convention. On Jan 19 the CRC concluded its consideration of the report of Saudi Arabia. The UN report records a UN "expert" as demanding, "If abortion was prohibited, how could the Government monitor its illegal practice? Did the Government encourage family planning and education in that matter?"

See the UN report at:
http://www.unog.ch/news2/documents/newsen/crc0117e.html

On Jan 18, as the CRC committee concluded its consideration of the report on Lesotho, a UN expert railed against the pro-family customs and tradition in the country demanding to know how the Government would "cope with the customary law in its efforts to introduce sex education." The expert asked "Had the Government succeeded in convincing the population on the need to have sexual education as a preventive measure against teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic?" (See the UN report at:
http://www.unog.ch/news2/documents/newsen/crc0115e.html)

Friday, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute reported on a soon to be released report by the Washington, DC based Heritage Foundation. The influential group's report charges that UN social policy is aimed at harming traditional institutions. Authored by former Bush Administration official Patrick Fagan, the report says, "few Americans or Members of Congress are aware that the United Nations is engaged in a campaign against the foundations of society --- the family, motherhood and fatherhood, religions that espouse the importance of marriage and the traditional family, and the legal and social structures that protect them."

It is hoped this report will provide the latest evidence to support the facts presented in the Fagan report and urge President Bush to heed the recommendations of his report. Fagan recommends that Bush clarify that the US will not ratify either the UN's The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child or the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

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