US pro-life resolve put to test with UN resolution on humanitarian operations
(C-Fam - United Nations) The Trump administration faces its biggest international pro-life test to date. Next week, UN member states are expected to adopt a UN resolution that guides the UN system’s humanitarian operations. The resolution has abortion-related language.
Since the first Trump administration, there has been a clash between Europeans and the Trump administration about whether UN humanitarian programs to help women in wars, natural disasters, and other emergencies should include abortion and gender ideology. Europeans are in favor of it. The Trump administration has voiced strong objections in the past.
The humanitarian omnibus resolution is adopted annually to reconfirm and refine the mandate of the UN system in humanitarian emergencies. For over a decade, the resolution has included language on sexual and reproductive health. The UN system widely interprets this to include a right to abortion and gender ideology in humanitarian emergencies. Humanitarian emergencies have become the test case and the battleground for the abortion industry to gain an international right to abortion.
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All major UN reports on humanitarian operations list abortion as an essential health service or a humanitarian right. The manual used by UN agencies to implement the mandate stemming from this resolution promotes abortion as a right in humanitarian assistance as well as transgender treatments for minors. It also strikes at conscientious objection, forcing doctors and medical providers in humanitarian situations to refer women for abortions and to perform abortions against their conscience.
The concerns about UN abortion advocacy are a real threat to U.S. sovereignty, too. Several European nations, including the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and others, openly promote abortion as a humanitarian right. They have initiated the issue at the UN Security Council recently. They have also attacked U.S. pro-life laws in human rights mechanisms. They claim that the Helms Amendment and ...
Editor's Note: Stefano Gennarini, J.D. 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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Politics·By Stefano Gennarini, J.D.
