Pro-family forces did not achieve all their goals for the final document prepared by delegates to the United Nations’ conference on establishing an nternational criminal court (ICC), but they sent the radical feminist lobby home with its tail between its legs. Pro-family people were hoping the terms “enforced pregnancy” and “gender” would be eliminated from charter altogether. This did not happen. Nevertheless, “enforced pregnancy” was defined so that the document could not be used to threaten national legislation pertaining to pregnancy. Also, “gender” was more clearly defined as limited to “male” and “female,” a major accomplishment after years of battling radical social theories at various UN conferences, where people have spoken of five “genders,” including male and female homosexuality and bisexualism” as “genders.” ICC advocates also failed to win over the support of the United States and 27 other nations, including China, India, and Turkey. Furthermore, 60 of the supportive nations still have to get the charter ratified by their respective governments. According to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, “it is widely believed that many others, including Russia and many Muslim states, won’t ratify the treaty. . . . Consequently, even if the ICC does secure the threshold of 66 national ratifications needed for the court to come into legal effect, it won’t have the endorsement of the governments of well over half the world’s people. It will also lack the support of at least three of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, making its status even more uncertain.” Despite the obvious weaknesses of this situation, Canadian foreign affairs inister Lloyd Axworthy (a leading champion of a powerful, eminist-oriented ICC) declared victory, and Canada’s national media rallied behind the charter with a notable lack of critical and investigative reporting. In fact, the foreign affairs department became so carried away that they distributed a press release announcing that “Representatives from 160 countries have agreed to the statute of the Court.”
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Pro-family forces did not achieve all their goals for the final document prepared by delegates to the United Nations’ conference on establishing an nternational criminal court (ICC), but they sent the radical feminist lobby home with its tail between its legs. Pro-family people were hoping the terms “enforced pregnancy” and “gender” would be eliminated from charter altogether. This did not happen. Nevertheless, “enforced pregnancy” was defined so that the document could not be used to threaten national legislation pertaining to pregnancy. Also, “gender” was more clearly defined as limited to “male” and “female,” a major accomplishment after years of battling […]
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