New effort to promote abortion through UN treaty

Abortion advocates are once again pushing for the inclusion of language promoting "sexual and reproductive health services" in a UN document on an unrelated topic, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports.

Efforts to identify "sexual and reproductive health services" as a human right are gaining support at a UN session drafting a treaty to protest the rights of persons with disabilities, C-Fam reports. Abortion advocates are pushing to include that language in a passage of the treaty referring to the rights to health-care services. Such language has never appeared in a treaty which is binding on all signatories.__

The drive to promote an international right to legal abortion is being led by the European Union, C-Fam notes-- adding that abortion is still illegal in most circumstances in several member-nations of the European Union, including Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Malta.

CWN - Catholic World News (13. august 2005)