NEW YORK, January 2 (C-FAM) – Pro-abortion forces have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours in the past twenty years and they have not advanced their agenda even a single syllable past what they got at the Cairo Conference in 1994.
Let that sink if for a moment, because it is something that haunts the days and nights of the UN Population Fund and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. They have dedicated a significant portion of their lives to establish an international right to abortion and all they have achieved is vague language on reproductive health and rights that most countries soundly reject as having anything to do with abortion. They are no nearer to an international right to abortion than they were when they began.
What’s more, they have even begun to see their slight gains fade. Two years ago the UN hosted the 20-year review of the Rio Conference on the environment. Delegates rejected language related to reproductive rights. Hillary Clinton denounced the outcome document as did many other pro-abortion figures including Nafis Sadik, former head of the UN Population Fund.
In the past several months the UN Population Fund has hosted regional conferences in preparation for the upcoming negotiations for new development goals and the 20-year review of the Cairo Conference. These stage-managed regional meetings are full of radical pro-abortion language. How have these documents been received by delegates in New York? With polite disdain.
The other hot-button issue at the UN in recent years has been the attempt to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” new categories of non-discrimination in international law. Delegations have opposed this not because they hate gays but because they know that gays are already protected in international law and that these efforts are really about advancing things like gay marriage and gay adoption, things that most of the world rejects.
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They have utterly failed to gain any real ground on this question. The best they have achieved is a PR campaign run by the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights and a “study” of violence against gays run out of the human rights office in Geneva.
The coalition against this effort in the General Assembly is substantially larger than the pro-life coalition so prospects of making any real progress are miniscule.
Anti-life and anti-family forces have made progress and very much control the UN machinery, however. They control the various agencies like the UN Population Fund, UNICEF, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the various human rights bodies that interpret and try to enforce treaties. They control all these and have made great progress in advancing their agenda through them.
Though they have very little to show for their efforts, these forces show no sign of letting up. This is why the UN remains one of the most important battlegrounds in the global fight for life and for family.
It is quite remarkable to think that a small band of largely unknown groups and individuals have delivered such an ongoing defeat to some of the most powerful forces in the world.
Reprinted with permission from C-fam.org.