As it has been written, the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol is fatally flawed and contradicts its own wonderful 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the "Right to Life" (Article 10). Tragically, it has been hijacked by promoters of abortion and populaton control:
- "The rights of persons with disabilities to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and to have access to age-appropriate information, reproductive and family planning education are recognized, and the means necessary to enable them to exercise these rights are provided" (Article 23, 1, b)
- "Provide persons with disabilities with the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable health care and programmes as provided to other persons, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health and population-based public health programmes" (Article 25, b)
- "We see defense of the right to life of persons with disabilities as a matter of particular urgency,...because the presence of handicapping conditions is not infrequently used as a rationale for abortion. Moreover, those babies with severe disabilities who are permitted to be born are sometimes denied ordinary and usual medical procedures.
"All too often, abortion and postnatal neglect are promoted by arguing that the infant will survive only to suffer a life of pain and deprivation. We find this reasoning appalling. Society's frequent indifference to the plight of citizens with disabilities is a problem that cries aloud for solutions based on justice and conscience, not violence. All people have a clear duty to do what lies in their power to improve living conditions for people with disabilities, rather than ignoring them or attempting to eliminate them as a burden not worth dealing with."
Sincerely,
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