Post by Daniel on Apr 19, 2016 17:38:34 GMT -5
UN Special Rapporteur: Pro-Life Laws are “Torture”
By Benjamin P. Sisney
The definition of “torture” has a new meaning. According to a recent United Nations (UN) report, pro-life laws now constitute “torture.”
That’s right. Pro-life laws are “torture” and should be forbidden by the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez, who issued the report, found that “the criminalization of abortion” “constitut[es] violations of international human rights law” and that “[t]he denial of safe abortions and subjecting women and girls to humiliating and judgmental attitudes in such contexts of extreme vulnerability and where timely health care is essential amount to torture or ill- treatment.”
Mendez opined that “States have a heightened obligation to prevent and combat gender-based violence and discrimination against women,” and that “States must repeal all laws that support the discriminatory and patriarchal oppression of women.”
Overlooked, of course, are the oppression of women by abortion and the oppression of unborn women who are aborted.
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aclj.org/pro-life/un-special-rapporteur-pro-life-laws-are-torture
By Benjamin P. Sisney
The definition of “torture” has a new meaning. According to a recent United Nations (UN) report, pro-life laws now constitute “torture.”
That’s right. Pro-life laws are “torture” and should be forbidden by the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez, who issued the report, found that “the criminalization of abortion” “constitut[es] violations of international human rights law” and that “[t]he denial of safe abortions and subjecting women and girls to humiliating and judgmental attitudes in such contexts of extreme vulnerability and where timely health care is essential amount to torture or ill- treatment.”
Mendez opined that “States have a heightened obligation to prevent and combat gender-based violence and discrimination against women,” and that “States must repeal all laws that support the discriminatory and patriarchal oppression of women.”
Overlooked, of course, are the oppression of women by abortion and the oppression of unborn women who are aborted.
continue reading
aclj.org/pro-life/un-special-rapporteur-pro-life-laws-are-torture
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