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Posted on 08/02/2007 4:08:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, August 2, 2007 (C-FAM.org) - At the latest round of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee meetings in New York, members of the CEDAW committee criticized Hondurans for their pro-life laws, telling their delegation that the total ban on abortions is “a crime.” Committee member Heisoo Shin told the Honduran delegation that it was necessary for the government to “create a momentum, a social force that stops the crime that allows a woman to die, to risk unsafe abortion and not have self-determination.”
When the Honduran delegation responded that government efforts were aimed at prevention of early and unwanted pregnancies, CEDAW member Silvia Pimentel, faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, fired back that the government had been as comprehensive as possible on prevention and that “there are situations where prevention is not enough.” She continued, “Women have their reasons to seek an abortion, which should be respected.” Pimentel admitted that those reasons did not always include a threat to the mother’s life, but that she could not understand the abortion ban in Honduras where “the interests of the fetus outweigh those of the mother.”
In response to the statements, a Honduran representative reminded the CEDAW committee that under article 67 of the country’s constitution unborn children have the same rights as born children. The head of the Honduran delegation acknowledged recommendations had been submitted to her government by other UN human rights commissions regarding the termination of pregnancy and that these were being considered as possible reform issues.
Driving home the committee’s stance during Hungary’s review, Silvia Pimentel criticized the content of Hungarians’ planning materials. The Brazilian expressed concern over brochures entitled “Life is a Miracle,” saying that conservatives often construed such material as reason for not having an abortion. Other CEDAW committee members pressed Belize, Brazil, Kenya and Liechtenstein on their abortion laws, calling on them to institute legal reform to formally permit abortions.
States regularly refute or ignore the committee’s questions on abortion with the understanding that the questions are not based upon obligations of the treaty, which does not mention abortion, but rather are based on the committee’s personal interpretations of the treaty.
In a similar vein, delegations listened patiently as committee members used article 16 on marriage and family to press for homosexual and lesbian rights. Pimentel questioned Honduras on the subject, Anamah Tan questioned Brazil on whether “married homosexual couples” were protected under the country’s marriage laws, and Ruth Halperin-Kaddari questioned South Korea on the name and focus of the government’s “Healthy Family Act.” Halperin-Kaddari said that its traditional notions of the nuclear family seemed to be “judgmental” of other forms of family, such as divorced, cohabitating, and same-sex couples.
The 2007 CEDAW sessions wrap up in New York this week. Earlier this year, the committee announced it would be moving the bulk of its meetings to Geneva starting in January 2008.
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UN believable that we’re still in it.
One of the major concerns of the United Nations is Population Stabilization: If you believe that the world has too many people, abortion and homosexual unions are a good thing. How many people have been eliminated via abortion? And homosexual marriage is a sterile union. Both good things according to the UN.
Would someone PLEASE remind me why we not only support the UN, but we still host them on OUR land???
The UN is one big crime. One of the most corrupt organizations in the world, they are a leech on honest people everywhere.
We should quit the UN, evict them and auction the land to the highest bidder (let Donald Trump or someone put condos and a shopping center there).
Fortunately with the UN it’s only words, and they don’t mean anything.
Oh it’s quite believable. The UN deems this to be a crime against humanity. Only women have rights. Children have none. That’s why the UN troops can rape children and get away with it.
Using my best Yakov Smirnoff accent, “The UN, what a body!”
I wonder. How is Iran on abortion?
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Isn’t it about time we kick the UN out of the US and back to socialist Europe where I am sure they’d be much more comfortable?
Maybe they can all move into “The Beast” building in Brussels.
May the lies, deceit of the enemy be disspelled by the light of TRUTH!
“CEDAW member Silvia Pimentel, faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo”
REMOVE HER.
Time after time we see the wrong people hide behind a false claim of Catholicism to effect the ways of satan.
Yes we do, the Vatican needs to silence these apostates.
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