Wednesday September 12, 2001
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UN EXPLICITLY DEMANDS ABORTION RIGHTS IN NEPAL
GENEVA, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – In one of the most explicit demands for abortion legalization ever issued by a United Nations committee, on August 31, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) issued its Concluding Observations of the Committee on Nepal. While the United Nations frequently suggests it does not promote abortions in countries where the practice is illegal, the official UN report of the CESCR concluding observations, fully released only in the past few days, demonstrates the opposite.
The UN report states, “The Committee urges the State party to take remedial action to address the problems of clandestine abortions, unwanted pregnancies and the high rate of maternal mortality. In this regard, the Committee urges the State party to reinforce reproductive and sexual health programmes, in particular in rural areas, and to allow abortion when pregnancies are life threatening or a result of rape or incest.”
The United Nations is overstepping its bounds in this case even by its own definition. The CESCR, which was set up to review how the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) are protected, acted outside its jurisdiction since abortion is not even mentioned in the ICESCR. The United Nations code phrase for abortion “reproductive health services” is not mentioned in the document either. Moreover, Nepal’s report to the committee does not mention abortion.
In Nepal, which signed on to the ICESCR in May 1991, the right to life of unborn children is protected by law. UN committees have in recent years been increasingly showing that have no regard whatever for the sanctity or value of unborn human life in member states.
See the full CESCR concluding observations on Nepal:
https://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/E.C.12.1.ADD.66.En?Opendocument
See the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
https://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
See Nepal’s report to the CESCR committee.
https://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/E.1990.5.ADD.45.En?Opendocument
BRITISH GOVERNMENT AIMS FOR MORE ABORTIONS, FASTER ABORTIONS
Looks To U.S. As The Model To Be Copied
LONDON, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) -In a National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV the British Government has pledged that by 2005 women who are legally entitled to an abortion will get one within three weeks. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) says that to meet that goal there must be a radical overhaul of abortion methods and they are looking to the United States for solutions. Women in the U.S. are offered abortions within a week of asking for one. At least 38 million unborn babies have been killed in the U.S since 1973 and U.S. agencies and organizations have been prominent in advancing abortion throughout the world.
“Women want abortions that are convenient to slot into their lives. They want to be able to come into the clinic and to be able to be treated and to be able to leave within a couple of hours,” said Ann Furedi, of the BPAS. Furedi cited the greater use of the abortion pill in the U.S. as a method to adopt. “We have to break the mould of the way abortions are carried out here,” she said.
For further information see:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1536000/15368…
SWISS MALE NURSE ADMITS KILLING 27 ELDERLY PATIENTS
OBWALDEN, Switzerland, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A 32-year-old Swiss nurse, who media have identified as Roger Andermatt, has admitted to killing 27 elderly patients claiming they were mercy killings and that he was action out of compassion. The investigating magistrate, Orvo Nieminen, said that the accused “added that in some cases he felt relieved, somehow liberated, after the person had died.”
Police say the male nurse, dubbed the “Angel of Death”, carried out the killings between September 1995 and June of this year.
According to the BBC, euthanasia is tolerated in a number of Swiss cantons, provided strict rules are followed. According to national law, active euthanasia is illegal but is not regarded as a crime if a doctor administers lethal drugs to a person close to a painful death for his own use.
See the BBC coverage:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1537000…
REDBOOK MAGAZINE AND GENERAL MOTORS PROMOTING ABORTION
Using Awards and Falsehoods
NEW YORK, September 12, 2001 (LSN.ca) – On Monday, September 10, Redbook, in conjunction with General Motors’ Chevy TrailBlazer, presented its fourth annual Mothers & Shakers awards honoring 12 women. The honorees included Hillary Rodham Clinton and Maureen Britell. While Clinton’s honoring could be excused due to her fame, Britell is known only for her pro-abortion activism.
Redbook describes Britell as follows:
A third-generation Irish catholic, Maureen Britell was raised to believe that abortion was “something vile that only the bad girls do.” Then she found herself 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus without a brain. She decided that she could not carry a child that would be stillborn to term. But what turned her into an activist was learning that abortion was not covered under her military pilot husband’s federal insurance plan. The Britells sued the government and she became a spokesperson for the National Abortion Federation, telling her story to legislators and testifying against attempts to ban partial-birth abortion. Maureen, now 35, is executive director of Voters for Choice in Washington, D.C.
Apparently Redbook magazine is supportive of pro-abortion activism as the magazine itself has promoted abortion by denying the abortion-breast-cancer link. WorldNetDaily reports that a women’s group has accused Redbook of misrepresenting research that associates breast cancer with induced abortion and the birth-control pill. The article, “Seven cancer facts you need to know now,” published in the September 2001 issue on sale today, denies the existence of an abortion-breast cancer link, calling it a “persistent rumor.”
See the Redbook press release and ABC story from WorldNetDaily:
https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY;=…
https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=243…
MICHAEL COREN ON THE ANTI-SPANKERS
This week’s 6 minute Real Audio by Michael Coren concerns the agenda of the militant anti-spankers.
https://www.lifesitenews.com:7070/ramgen/091201theantispankers.rm
LIFESITE NEWSBYTES
Scientists are growing contraceptives in genetically modified corn. The corn plants contain a rare class of human antibodies that attack human sperm.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4253102,00….
New studies show that exposure to common solvents such as paint thinners, lacquers, printer’s ink and dry cleaning chemicals are harmful to men’s sperm count and can endanger children in the womb.
https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010…
US NEWS ROUNDUP
The current issue of the Alan Guttmacher Institute’s Guttmacher Report on Public Policy features a summary detailing state lawmakers’ actions this legislative session on issues such as abortion, emergency contraception and contraceptive coverage.
https://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/gr040408.html
AGI has also released another report examining recent state laws and policies related to sex and STD education in schools.
https://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/gr040404.html
A US study on child sexual exploitation in North America has found that homosexual sex accounts for 95 percent of the commercial sex involving boys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/10/national/10CHIL.html