(LifeSiteNews) – The far-left United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child reportedly intends to reiterate support for letting minors commit abortions in an upcoming comment on an international children’s rights treaty.
The Center for Family & Human Rights (C-FAM) reported that the committee is currently seeking input on a general comment on the status of compliance with the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. Among the grievances pertaining to children’s “access to justice,” according to the committee, is reportedly lack of “access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls.” (The treaty itself does not mention or guarantee abortion.)
Representatives of Argentina panned the proposed draft, arguing it “requires substantial structural revisions,” and that its reference to abortion poses a danger to parental rights: “In its current form, it exceeds the Committee’s mandate under the Convention and the UN Charter, violating the principle of good faith in treaty interpretation.”
Additionally, the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture warned that the draft’s references to “gender” could be construed as creating obligations to allow minors to be exposed to potentially devastating “transition” procedures that do “not provide access to the justice of the child but rather an irreversible damage on a subject not yet mature.”
The UN 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.
