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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 23: United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, gives an exclusive interview during the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 23, 2025. (Photo by Muhammet Ikbal Arslan /Anadolu via Getty Images)
Abortion extremists push their agenda at the UN Human Rights Council
Abortion extremists push their agenda at the UN Human Rights Council
(New York, C-Fam) UN human rights officials took over the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council to promote divisive social policies, including advocating for “gender-affirming care” services for migrants and criticizing countries that do not support pride marches, LGBT-friendly curricula in schools, and the killing of the unborn.
Held from June 28 to July 9th in Geneva, Switzerland, this year’s UN Human Rights Council session convened member states, UN agencies, and accredited civil society organizations to engage with UN special rapporteurs’ latest reports….
Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, took it to the Council to advocate for a “paradigm shift to reimagine health systems,” asking for “full decriminalization of abortion and ensuring that there is no barrier both from patient access and a careworker provision side.”
In her report, Mofokeng asked that medical education be updated “through a human rights, community-based approach that embodies ethical practices and empowers both providers and patients.” Mofokeng spoke against doctors’ conscientious objections to abortion, framing them as a potential violation of the sexual and reproductive rights of women.
Ms. Haina Lu, a Member of the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, criticized countries that enact pro-natalist and family-oriented policies and said that “Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) “is clear that human rights are granted to born people.”
Despite the repeated pro-abortion rhetoric at the UN, its member states never agreed to an international right to abortion, many of them holding that the right to life beginning at conception is consistent with the text of the UDHR, which claims in Article 3 that “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
Argentina pushed back against Lu’s comment on abortion, saying that “two lives are at stake,” that babies in the womb “have no voice…”
Editor’s Note: Iulia-Elena Cazan writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.
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