(C-Fam - Washington) The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has once more pressured governments to promote abortion and gender ideology. The committee of experts also adopted a new general comment on access to justice following intense debate over controversial abortion language and threats to parental rights.

The General Comment was circulated in draft form last year and immediately faced pushback from the government of Argentina and the Holy See for including a right to “effective access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls.”

The Holy See called this “unacceptable,” noting that “there is no recognized ‘right to abortion’ under international law” and that a lack of access to it “does not and cannot constitute a violation of international human rights obligations.” 

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The Holy See also criticized the draft for “effectively ‘adultifying’” children, “treating them as autonomous agents independent of their family.”

The Holy See also opposed references to LGBTQ children in the draft, pointing out that such terms “lack a generally agreed legal definition in international law.”  Egypt also objected to these references and insisted that any reference to abortion must be subject to national legal standards. 

Due to the controversy, the committee postponed a final decision on the text at a meeting earlier this year.

The final language in the general comment remains under wraps until its final, edited form is published in the coming weeks.

During the committee’s recent session, the committee also reviewed the periodic reports of seven countries.  Kazakhstan faced criticism over laws restricting minors’ access to “age-appropriate information concerning sexual orientation and gender identity” and was ordered to ensure that sex education was mandatory and included “accurate and non-stigmatizing information on sexually transmitted infections and HIV, sexual orientation and gender identity.”

The committee told Tajikistan to “recognize the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual...

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(C-Fam - Washington) The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has once more pressured governments to promote abortion and gender ideology. The committee of experts also adopted a new general comment on access to justice following intense debate over controversial abortion language and threats to parental rights.

The General Comment was circulated in draft form last year and immediately faced pushback from the government of Argentina and the Holy See for including a right to “effective access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls.”

The Holy See called this “unacceptable,” noting that “there is no recognized ‘right to abortion’ under international law” and that a lack of access to it “does not and cannot constitute a violation of international human rights obligations.” 

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The Holy See also criticized the draft for “effectively ‘adultifying’” children, “treating them as autonomous agents independent of their family.”

The Holy See also opposed references to LGBTQ children in the draft, pointing out that such terms “lack a generally agreed legal definition in international law.”  Egypt also objected to these references and insisted that any reference to abortion must be subject to national legal standards. 

Due to the controversy, the committee postponed a final decision on the text at a meeting earlier this year.

The final language in the general comment remains under wraps until its final, edited form is published in the coming weeks.

During the committee’s recent session, the committee also reviewed the periodic reports of seven countries.  Kazakhstan faced criticism over laws restricting minors’ access to “age-appropriate information concerning sexual orientation and gender identity” and was ordered to ensure that sex education was mandatory and included “accurate and non-stigmatizing information on sexually transmitted infections and HIV, sexual orientation and gender identity.”

The committee told Tajikistan to “recognize the right to identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual...

Read entire article at C-Fam.