Commentary
For most Americans, the domestic battle over abortion is the only visible one. However, the much harder to detect international fight over abortion is one they should be watching.
For decades, there has been a dishonest and unrelenting pressure campaign at the U.N. to cajole member nations into declaring abortion a human right, regardless of their national views and policies. A resolution was just adopted at a U.N. General Assembly promoting the idea that access to “safe abortion” is a human rights issue. But more than 30 countries supported an amendment striking this language.
Member nations seeking to fabricate an international “right” to abortion are undermining previous U.N. consensus—namely, that abortion is an issue of sovereignty. And they’re doing so in order to establish an entirely new and artificial international “consensus” via duplicitous manipulation of procedure….