UNITED NATIONS, October 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com/C-fam.org) – International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has started distributing a brochure to inform children that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has established for them an international right to abortion.
A summary of the brochure by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute notes that both the CRC’s recognition of a child’s right to life as well as a child’s right to health can be interpreted to mean that children should have access to abortion. For example, the CRC’s broad right to health includes the right to “visit a doctor or nurse to receive the full range of sexual and reproductive health services that are available and legal in your country, including contraceptives [and] abortion services” Also, because children have a right to life, they must be protected from reproductive problems that could threaten their lives, “such as…unsafe [illegal] abortion.”
The brochure also informs children that the CRC frees them from any parental interference in their sexual education or in the provision of reproductive services. Because children have a right to health, “No one should turn you away or stop you from receiving services, or demand that you get someone else’s permission first (e.g. the permission of a parent).” The right to privacy means that “If you tell a medical person or a teacher something that you don’t want anyone else to know, then he or she should respect your privacy.”
See the whole IPPF document online at: https://www.ippf.org/youth/young_person.htm See the C-fam summary at: https://www.c-fam.org/FAX/Volume_5/faxv5n44.html