Pro-Life States Win by Losing at UN

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UNITED NATIONS, November 28 (C-Fam) More governments than ever voted for eliminating controversial language related to abortion and LGBT issues in the ongoing UN General Assembly.

In the Third Committee of the General Assembly, forty-eight governments voted in favor of removing “sexual and reproductive health” language from a resolution on children. Seventy governments voted to remove “sexual orientation and gender identity” from a resolution on persons with disabilities.

In both cases the amendments to remove the controversial terms failed, but the votes were closer than it was imagined possible. While seventy-four governments voted to retain the language on sexual orientation, they won by a mere four votes. Many of the governments that voted in favor of the homosexual and transgender agenda did so only because of pressure from the European Union. Over fifty states abstained or failed to cast a vote.

The close vote is a wakeup call for the European Union and progressive governments that promote abortion and gender ideology in UN policy. The vote demonstrated a realistic path to rollback abortion and gender ideology from UN policy altogether, something few thought possible during the first Trump administration.

Dozens of delegations made statements complaining of the attempt to corrupt children through explicit UN-style sex education and the promotion of abortion and contraception for children without parental consent.

Speaking on behalf of a group of African governments, Nigeria complained that proposals related to the importance of the family were not included in the final draft, despite being based on the obligations of all members states under binding international treaties.

A delegate from Burkina Faso —speaking for Burundi, Cameroon, and Mali — said the use of the term sexual and reproductive health “cannot be interpreted as giving children access to drugs and medical treatment without parental consent.” She said the term must only refer to health services that are “legal and approved by competent authorities” in each nation. She emphasized the “inalienable and central role” of parents in the education of children.

Argentina’s delegate said parents had the “primary responsibility” to protect children and that the State could “support, but never replace” the family. He emphasized that protecting the family is a “structural principle of human rights law, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and that it is part of respect for the principle of subsidiarity.

The delegate of Denmark speaking on behalf of all the nations that are part of the European Union attacked the amendment to protect children from sexualization as “harmful to the substance of the resolution” and urged nations to keep “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the resolution on persons with disabilities. Earlier in the day, he had also attacked developing nations in Africa and Asia for refusing to recognize homosexual unions as families in a resolution about the family. “Families are living dynamic entities” and “various forms of the family exist” he said.

The amendments that led to the debate were proposed by Burundi and Egypt, respectively. The Egyptian amendment to delete the homosexual and gender identity language was on behalf of the 54 member states of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.

The sexual left among UN member states and UN bureaucrats are increasingly furious about the pushback from traditional governments on abortion and LGBT issues. They have invented a new term — anti-rights — for those governments and NGOs that oppose their agenda.

 

 

 

 

 

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