(LifeSiteNews) – Left-wing delegations at the United Nations Security Council are pushing for abortion to remain central to global security policies currently under review.
The Center for Family & Human Rights reports that during Monday’s security council meeting, representatives of the European Union, Denmark, and Ireland all embraced the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and declared that “reproductive health and rights,” euphemisms for abortion, must be a central component of it.
“Denmark emphasized that [so-called] sexual and reproductive health and rights were ‘non-negotiable,’” C-FAM reports. “Ireland called for transgender-specific programming in peace operations through ‘intersectional’ approaches and recognition of women ‘in all their diversity.’”
The United States delegation gave general support for the broad goals of the WPS, which does not itself specifically mention “reproductive health” or “rights.” The Trump administration has previously rejected subjecting the military to “woke” WPS standards, which UN officials say mandate “gender parity” via “binding targets and quotas.”
“The WPS agenda has always been a tug of war between contending worldviews,” says American Council on Women Peace and Security president Susan Yoshihara. “One is the national security approach wanting to bring peace and stability to their countries by including everyone, including women and girls. The other is informed by an ideology of sweeping gender equality broadly defined. Only if we return to a laser focus on peace and security will WPS succeed and be a uniting force, and not a divisive one.”
Yoshihara expressed hope that the Trump administration “will take a firm stand as it did in its first administration. We must not let the WPS agenda get hijacked by special interests.”
The United Nations has long been notorious for pushing a pro-abortion agenda from a pretext of “human rights,” from criticizing nations that ban abortions to attempting to establish an international “right” to abort, all while taking a selective approach to actual human rights violations from offending nations such as China, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
The Trump administration has reduced pro-abortion funding internationally by freezing foreign aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and withdrawing the United States from the left-wing World Health Organization and UN Human Rights Council.
