International Body Begins to Draft New Pandemic Preparedness Treaty

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | August 11, 2022

GENEVA, August 12 (C-Fam) Member states of the World Health Organization approved a blueprint for a treaty on pandemic preparedness that could be used to promote abortion and gender ideology.

The plan for the new treaty presented last month includes a section on “vulnerable populations” that challenges any “legal and regulatory barriers that may prevent them from accessing health services.” This is a phrase designed by the global abortion lobby to refer euphemistically to laws that restrict or regulate access to abortion services.

Pandemic preparedness is now a high focus area for abortion groups and the homosexual and transgender lobby.

From its earliest stages, the COVID-19 pandemic was instrumentalized by the abortion lobby and the UN machinery to liberalize access to abortion, prompting a sharp rebuke from U.S. officials. Now, under the pro-abortion Biden administration, the U.S. government is fully committed to funding “reproductive health services.” Other donor governments are also committed to including abortion in pandemic preparedness policies.

The blueprint also includes sections on “equity” and “non-discrimination.” While countries may understand these terms in different ways, it is unquestionable that in Western countries they are understood to refer to promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism.

One of the first pandemic assistance policies rolled out by the Biden administration was to controversially give preferential treatment to businesses owned by individuals who identify as homosexual or transgender. This policy was widely contested and viewed as unfair and discriminatory.

Even aside from these known areas of controversy, the pandemic treaty has the potential to have far reaching implications for social and economic policies not directly related to health systems. The blueprint for the treaty does not limit itself to addressing traditional health policies associated with pandemic preparedness. It endorses an “all-encompassing whole-of-government, multi-stakeholder, whole-of-society approach to tackle the social determinants of health.” It prescribes legal and bureaucratic measures at all levels of government to address pandemic impacts on “economic growth, employment, trade, transport, gender inequality, education, food insecurity, nutrition and culture.”

The treaty would be adopted in accordance with the World Health Organization’s constitution and automatically come in force without any need for ratification at the national level, even though this procedure remains controversial and its legality somewhat blurry. The blueprint, nevertheless, includes an acknowledgment of the “sovereign right [of each State] to determine and manage their approach to public health, notably pandemic prevention, preparedness and response pursuant to their own policies.”

It includes a reporting requirement for countries and proposes a “global peer review mechanism to assess national, regional and global preparedness capacities and gaps.” Similar peer review mechanisms in the United Nations human rights and development systems are routinely manipulated to promote abortion, homosexuality, and transgender ideology.

The decision to go forward with the treaty was made by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response on July 21. The body, composed of all 194 members states of the World Health organization, is led by six delegations: South Africa, the Netherlands, Brazil, Egypt, Thailand, and Japan. Negotiations to flesh out the blueprint are expected to begin in December following a period of worldwide consultations.

The Thai representative of the bureau leading the negotiations thus far, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, remarked that it seemed to him that the negotiations until this moment had been a “honeymoon” but he also warned that “the honeymoon period will finish very quickly” and anticipated the negotiations in December to be “bitter.”

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