UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (LifeSiteNews.com) – World Life League (WLL) reported yesterday that UN delegates from the European Union continued their attack against motherhood at the Beijing+5 intersessional at the United Nations in New York, which began on May 24, 2000. The current intersessional is a continuation of the work of the Preparatory Committee of the Beijing+5 Women’s Conference that began in New York last March. “The focus of this effort is clearly misdirected toward the things that women in the developing world want the least,” reported WLL director Mark DeYoung. “What women throughout the developing world want and need the most are the basics: good governance, basic child and maternal health, and authentic economic development, not pressure to kill their babies.”
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports that there has been a radical departure by many Latin American countries in their pro-life efforts at the UN. A coalition, which includes Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, and Venezuela, is attempting to place the term “sexual rights” into the document. “Sexual rights” is an undefined term that first appeared at the original Beijing conference, where more than 60 countries objected to it. Pro-family delegations argue that “sexual rights” is an attempt to include the “right to act out openly on sexual impulses inside or outside marriage, including deviant sexual impulses such as homosexuality.”
(with files from WLL and C-Fam)