Five Best Moments for Life and Family at the UN in 2017

By Austin Ruse
Center for family and Human Rights (C-Fam)

NEW YORK, December 29 (C-Fam) The pro-life and pro-family fight at the UN is always difficult. But even with our political and financial disadvantage our team has been able to consistently deliver victories for life and family. Here are the most significant pro-life developments of the past 12 months.


1. Pro-life U.S. President Donald Trump Transforms Global Abortion Debate.

Though pro-life supporters of Donald Trump were mocked last year, Trump is proving to be the most pro-life president in U.S. history. He not only reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which forbids U.S. family planning money from going to pro-abortion groups overseas, an important but relatively small amount of money, he expanded it to include all of roughly $9 billion of U.S. global health aid. Trump also defunded the UN Population Fund for its complicity in forced abortion. And the U.S. took a stand to qualify “reproductive health” to exclude abortion in UN agreements, as well as G7, and G20 negotiations. Some who are weary of the fight say “reproductive health” is a lost cause. This shows it is not and that we can do even more.


2. Nations Speak Up for Family and Parental Rights.

The Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted the resolution on protection of the family for the third year in a row. Sadly, the U.S. did not support it. In the Spring, the Commission on Population and Development could not adopt a resolution because of European insistence on sexual rights, comprehensive sexuality education, and overemphasis on sexual and reproductive issues. In the Fall, the small island State of Saint Lucia and African delegations outmaneuvered the Europeans in negotiations to make sure parental rights made it into three General Assembly resolutions about children. They proved that defying European donors is not only possible but that it pays dividends.

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