Europeans Push New Thought Crimes

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UNITED NATIONS, October 30 (C-Fam) Former European colonial powers France and the Netherlands want all nations to punish the new crime of “gender-related killings” or “femicide.” They are asking for a commitment in a General Assembly resolution on violence against women.

According to UN agencies, such crimes include the denial of abortion for any reason.

In negotiations this week, European diplomats asked delegates to withdraw their objections to such new crimes. “This resolution is not binding,” they told delegates. “We are not negotiating a treaty,” they stated. Europeans routinely use such assertions to overcome objections to controversial policies. While UN resolutions are not binding on States, they are binding on the UN system and are used in court proceedings.

If adopted as drafted, the resolution would give the UN system marching orders to promote gender ideology in criminal laws and commit UN member states to adopt gender ideology crimes.

The new category is not objectively provable. It does not seek to punish violence based on the sex of the victim. That is already a stand-alone crime or aggravating factor in roughly half of all nations. The new category seeks to criminalize the subjective intent of the perpetrator as “gender related.”

In other words, gender-related killings or femicide are a category of thought crime. The idea behind such criminal reforms based on gender ideology is to punish anyone for the way they think about gender. Their scope is broader than just criminal law.

The purpose of these campaigns is to overhaul all legal, political, social, cultural, and economic institutions, and even religion, in line with gender ideology, including promoting abortion and sex-rejecting procedures. Only in this way, proponents argue, can entire societies begin to change the way they think about gender to prevent gender-based violence.

The primary example of this approach is the Inter-American Model Law on the Prevention, Protection, and Eradication of Femicide, published jointly by the Organization of American States and the UN agency for Women. It is directly cited in the resolution sponsored by the former European powers.

The model law expressly mentions deaths resulting from the “denial of safe abortion care” and the “criminalization of abortion” as a form of femicide. In the section on penalties, it states, “Whoever prevents an abortion from being performed in case of risk of life of the mother, and this causes her death, will be punished with the penalty provided for the crime of femicide/feminicide.” It makes no provision for conscientious objection. A guideline on the implementation of the model law further clarifies that the penalty should be the same penalty as murder in the first degree.

France and the Netherlands are facing strong objections to the focus of the resolution. Their biggest obstacle is that fewer than thirty nations criminalize femicide. That has never stopped France and the Netherlands from using UN resolutions to promote gender ideology and funding projects to promote gender ideology directly in executive programs.

This violence against women resolution is a biannual initiative of France and the Netherlands. It is the tip of the spear for gender ideology at the United Nations. The sponsors use it to push the envelope on gender ideology, sexual rights for children, and abortion rights. Then, they accuse anyone who objects of being part of the “patriarchy.” It has been so controversial in recent years that everyone expects the resolution to be voted on. The resolution was subjected to nine hostile amendments the last time it was adopted.

The resolution is on a collision course with the Trump administration’s work to defend women and girls from gender ideology. France openly accused the Trump administration of backtracking on human rights and women’s issues last month as a result.

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