(LifeSiteNews) — The United Nations is seeking to undermine parental rights and children’s safety by redefining “children’s rights” to include abortion access and the promotion of the LGBT ideology.
From January 12-30, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is meeting to discuss implementing their newly developed Convention on the Rights of the Child, which includes a draft policy promoting abortion and gender-confusion on children.
“Mechanisms should treat the claims made by girls in an equal manner as other children, sensitive to their specific experiences, and address any discrimination in access on the basis of gender, for example, by refraining from imposing any requirement for approval by a male family member, especially for claims related to sexual and reproductive health and rights,” draft general comment No. 27 declared.
The draft promised to address various alleged “child rights violations” by ensuring “effective access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls.”
Later, the draft promised to protect the rights of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children.” It further called on states to “take a gender-transformative approach, including by recognizing the gendered nature of certain rights violations and properly investigating related claims.”
The promotion of the LGBT agenda to gender-confused children is especially dangerous, as a significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, particularly when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
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Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “transition” procedures, including “reassignment” surgery, fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
The document, drafted in 2024, was issued for public consultation in 2025. Now, it is under review by the U.N. committee. While the document would not be legally binding, it would pressure other countries to embrace the U.N.’s radical pro-abortion and pro-LGBT agenda for children.
Many have voiced concerns over the document, including prominent pro-family activist Chris Elston, known as “Billboard Chris.”
“The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child is trying to classify abortion for minors as a child’s right!” he wrote in an X post. “They are drafting new policy which will advise that parents are removed from the decision entirely.”
“Gender ideology is not a fad. It is an inorganic movement pushed and funded by governments and intergovernmental bodies like the U.N. Until we stop them, we will never stop gender ideology,” he continued, linking to a CitizenGo petition to protest the draft.
The petition, signed by thousands, warns, “If adopted, this text won’t stay on paper. It will become a new global standard and be cited in courtrooms, enforced in schools and hospitals, and used to pressure parents who refuse to comply.”
“The draft treats abortion for minors as a child’s right that must be provided quickly, and removes parents from the decision entirely,” it continued.
“It also pushes gender ideology, demanding that states reshape laws and institutions to affirm a child’s declared ‘gender identity’ sidelining parents who say no,” the petition stated.
The U.N.has long been notorious for pushing a pro-abortion agenda under the pretext of “human rights.” It has criticized nations that ban abortions and attempted to establish an international “right” to abort, all while taking a selective approach to actual human rights violations from offending nations such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.