U.S. Fights Back Against Abortion as a Humanitarian Right

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D.
Center for Family & Human Rights


NEW YORK, September 21 (C-Fam) During the Obama administration abortion groups successfully included the term “sexual and reproductive health” in two Security Council resolutions and an annual UN General Assembly resolution.

The result is that now UN resolutions on humanitarian policies for war and natural disasters call “sexual and reproductive health” a “basic humanitarian need.” What this means is that nearly all UN reports on humanitarianism call for access to abortion as a humanitarian right under the rubric of providing access to “sexual and reproductive health.”

It is now impossible to include “sexual and reproductive health” in UN resolutions without also endorsing the notion of abortion as a humanitarian right, even if only indirectly and on shaky legal ground.

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