Pro-life organizations say the move is a not-so-veiled attempt to create categories of the killable that include the pre-born, the sick, and the vulnerable.
The Holy See’s representative urged the UN’s Human Rights Council to defend the family as the “fundamental cell of society” and “founded upon marriage between a man and a woman.”
Physical attacks, property damage, negative stereotyping by the media, and infringement of freedom of assembly and expression are just part of a day's work for German pro-lifers.
The EU plans on introducing a joint statement at the Council similar to a 2008 EU-led declaration calling for “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected non-discrimination categories.