Stefano Gennarini, J.D.
NEW YORK, November 3, 2017 (C-Fam) – Despite pleas from more than one hundred governments and pro-life organizations, including the United States and Poland, the UN Human Rights Committee has excluded unborn children from the right to life in international law this week in Geneva.
“I was worried for a minute we would discuss the word limit for separate opinions,” joked Yuval Shany. The Israeli law professor was mocking pro-life concerns as the committee rushed through a second reading of a controversial draft commentary on the right to life in what is perhaps the most important UN human rights treaty.
Shany, who has been in charge of the draft for two years, knew there would be no dissent. The 18 members of the committee that records the state efforts to implement the treaty unanimously agreed on a text that in some respects is more extreme than the previous one.
The committee added language about access to abortion not just being a right under the covenant, but that it must also be “affordable” and “effective,” as abortion groups recommended to the committee. U.S. law professor Sarah Cleveland said this was needed to
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A law saying abort is legal or not legal is keeping our minds on this earth not on what is to come in God’s kingdom. The unborn is a potential resident to be in God’s eternal kingdom. Why are people not talking about that? They that are honest having the giving, loving, forgiving Lord in them not working ill to people will obtain an eternal prize. A man made law will not teach that to anyone.
God is bigger. I’m not giving up and you better not either.