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By Alex Bush

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, June 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new UN report, titled “15 years of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences (1994-2009) – A critical review,” states that “criminal sanctions against all forms of abortions and contraception” imposed by the state constitute an act of violence against women.

 

“Such state policies and measures infringe upon women's liberty, security, and life,” the report says.

 

The report continues on to argue that if a state does not readily provide contraception or “family planning services” to women then it is committing an indirect act of violence against women because they are not recognizing, nor enabling, “women's sexual autonomy.”

 

The U.K.’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) responded to the report, calling it an “extreme pro-abortion anti-family report.”

 

Pat Buckley of SPUC told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), to whom the report was given, that “Irrespective of what the report says, there is not and never can be a human right to abortion.”

 

“The idea of trying to create a right to terminate the life of the most vulnerable human beings, by tearing them from their mothers' wombs, is in fact the very essence of violence against women and their babies.”

 

SPUC's is urging “government representatives to study the report carefully, as it appears to contain many unacceptable and disturbing claims against the value of human life, the status of the family and the dignity of women.”

 

The report has yet to be approved by the UNHRC, which is meeting until June 19th, when it will decide whether or not to adopt the report.

  

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