Post by Daniel on Feb 10, 2018 10:53:35 GMT -5
The U.N. Seeks to Redefine Life to Justify Innocent Deaths – We’re Taking Action
By ACLJ.org
Committee members at the United Nations seem confused about the definition of “the right to life” as they currently work to reinterpret those words to justify abortion, even for babies with disabilities.
Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right (ICCPR) states:
“Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”
Those words seem clear. Every human has the right to life, protected by law. Yet right now the U.N., the Human Rights Committee is drafting General Comments on Article 6, and in what seems like a glaring contradiction, using it to justify abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
This week, through our European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), we submitted an official legal submission to the U.N. Human Rights Council expressing our concerns over the committee’s interpretation of Article 6, especially as it pertains to the protection of unborn babies and the treatment of those with disabilities. Among our concerns, disturbing language that would seem to justify, if not encourage terminating babies with disabilities simply for being considered embarrassments:
In doing so, the draft on general comment denies any protection to human life before birth and urges the 168 State Parties to the Covenant to legalise abortion on demand. The text gives no real condition or time limit to the “right” to access to abortion which should be available as soon as carrying the pregnancy “would cause the woman substantial pain or suffering”, whether “physical or mental”. Moreover, the draft condemns, without defining them, the requirements that States impose to legally access abortion insofar as they would be “humiliating or unreasonably burdensome”. The draft also reckons that States have the obligation to ensure access for adolescents to the use of contraceptive methods as a means to better preserve the health of women against the risks caused by abortion.
As we’ve told you before, this is not the first time the U.N. Human Rights Committee has tried to twist Article 6 to promote the legalized murder of babies with disabilities. Last year one member of this U.N. committee stated that while we should help people with disabilities “once they are born,” he went on to say there was no requirement to allow unborn babies with detected disabilities to be born. He further went on to say “we must do everything we can to avoid disabilities” – i.e. abort them before they are born.
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aclj.org/pro-life/the-un-seeks-to-redefine-life-to-justify-innocent-deaths-were-taking-action
By ACLJ.org
Committee members at the United Nations seem confused about the definition of “the right to life” as they currently work to reinterpret those words to justify abortion, even for babies with disabilities.
Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right (ICCPR) states:
“Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”
Those words seem clear. Every human has the right to life, protected by law. Yet right now the U.N., the Human Rights Committee is drafting General Comments on Article 6, and in what seems like a glaring contradiction, using it to justify abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
This week, through our European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), we submitted an official legal submission to the U.N. Human Rights Council expressing our concerns over the committee’s interpretation of Article 6, especially as it pertains to the protection of unborn babies and the treatment of those with disabilities. Among our concerns, disturbing language that would seem to justify, if not encourage terminating babies with disabilities simply for being considered embarrassments:
In doing so, the draft on general comment denies any protection to human life before birth and urges the 168 State Parties to the Covenant to legalise abortion on demand. The text gives no real condition or time limit to the “right” to access to abortion which should be available as soon as carrying the pregnancy “would cause the woman substantial pain or suffering”, whether “physical or mental”. Moreover, the draft condemns, without defining them, the requirements that States impose to legally access abortion insofar as they would be “humiliating or unreasonably burdensome”. The draft also reckons that States have the obligation to ensure access for adolescents to the use of contraceptive methods as a means to better preserve the health of women against the risks caused by abortion.
As we’ve told you before, this is not the first time the U.N. Human Rights Committee has tried to twist Article 6 to promote the legalized murder of babies with disabilities. Last year one member of this U.N. committee stated that while we should help people with disabilities “once they are born,” he went on to say there was no requirement to allow unborn babies with detected disabilities to be born. He further went on to say “we must do everything we can to avoid disabilities” – i.e. abort them before they are born.
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aclj.org/pro-life/the-un-seeks-to-redefine-life-to-justify-innocent-deaths-were-taking-action
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