Sec. Clinton’s Remarks on International Human Rights Day Omits Unborn

By Lisa Correnti | December 12, 2011

Last Friday commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 by a vote of 48 in favor, 0 against, and 8 abstentions.

In a US Dept. of State press release Sec. Clinton writes that the UDHR was a promise, “to uphold and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all people.”

Clinton reminds states that it is their obligation to guarantee these rights to all of its citizens and that the United States would “stand with those who defend human rights against oppression wherever it occurs, and support those working toward a more peaceful world.”

While I commend Sec. Clinton for calling on the immediate release all “prisoners of conscience,” and for her calls to people of each nation to create governments and societies that protect these human rights – the foundation she calls for is fundamentally flawed when it doesn’t recognize the rights of the unborn.

Blessed Mother Teresa said it best, “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.”

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