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"I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not.
- "The United States, Poland, and more than one hundred other
governments and non-governmental organizations barraged the UN Human
Rights Committee with briefs, pleading them not to declare abortion a
human right.
"A bicameral and bipartisan coalition of 51 members of the U.S.
Congress, led by Chris Smith of New Jersey, also wrote to the committee,
'As lawmakers, we believe we have a duty to protect the weak,
disenfranchised, unwanted and vulnerable from violence and abuse.
Therefore we write to affirm that the most elemental human right of
all—the right to life—includes unborn children'....
"The UN committee is finalizing a legal commentary that excludes
unborn children and the terminally ill from the right to life in article
6 of the UN treaty on civil and political rights, one of the earliest
and most widely ratified UN treaties. The commentary will not be binding
but could be influential.
"While the official statement of the U.S. did not address euthanasia,
and did not rule out the possibility of a human right to abortion under
other UN treaties that had not been ratified by the United States, it
wrote that 'any issues concerning access to abortion […] are outside the
scope of Article 6.' The U.S. described the draft commentary as
'expansive' and 'inconsistent with a proper interpretive analysis'...." (C-Fam, 10/13/17)
On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and the Pa Delegation on
federal matters (10/11/17 update), as well as a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg on state matters (10/11/17 update).
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