Posted on 11/18/2012 6:17:05 AM PST by NYer
NEW YORK, November 16, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - A newly released United Nations Population Fund report calls on governments to counteract religious objections to emergency contraception, which the report says stand in the way of fundamental human freedoms.
The UNFPA’s 2012 annual report, which declared birth control a human right, was released this week.
It states that UN general comments are the authoritative interpretation of the standards that help translate the right to family planning at the abstract…level into policies and programs.
The committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights in its General Comment Number 14 ruled that one of the normative elements is acceptability.
According to the report, ‘duty-bearers’ (governments and others) have a responsibility to assure that all forms of contraception including sterilization and abortion-inducing ‘emergency contraception’ are viewed as acceptable.
Information and services may exist, the report states. But if they are not acceptable for cultural, religious or other reasons, they will not be used. (Emphasis added.)
In a case study in Mexico, the global body found that married Catholic women…said that modern contraceptives, such as the pill or intrauterine devices, were against their religious beliefs and were therefore unacceptable to them.
The report makes clear it includes emergency contraception, such as Plan B and Ella, as among basic human rights.
Although the report claims emergency contraception does not cause abortion, two sentences earlier the report states: A single emergency contraceptive pill, when taken within up to five days after unprotected intercourse, prevents a fertilized egg from implanting.
The IUD also acts as an abortifacient.
Without such services, Mexico’s faithful Catholic women had to wait until after their reproductive years to have the ‘possibility of enjoying sexual intimacy free from the worry of an unintended or unwanted pregnancy,’ the report stated.
The world body declares it will support those who combat views that make contraception, including aboriton-including drugs, unacceptable. UNFPA commits in particular to…supporting both men and women to transform gender attitudes and cultural barriers that impede access to and use of family planning, it states.
Many believe the declaration of such birth control measures is intended to pave the way for a global approval of abortion-on-demand.
What is to stop the UNFPA from declaring that abortion is a ‘basic human right’? Brian Clowes of Human Life International asked in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com.
The UNFPA report states, The right to family planning is also a gateway to the achievement of other rights.
Ping!
What about the rights of the unborn?
Can there be any doubt of the evil that is the UN?
Huh? Which human? Is all of this idiotic libtard $hit EVER going to stop?
The right of a baby to be born is a human right. The “right” to kill that baby is not human but of Satan as he is here to kill, steal and to destroy therefor the UN is Satanic and barbaric in nature.
By whose authority does the UN have the right to tell me what to believe and attack my religion.
This country was founded on Freedom of Religion and we damned sure don’t need an atheist pack of a-holes in the UN telling us how to run our country.
While they support Islam they attack God.
Get the UN out of my country, Let them set up in Saudi Arabia or Zimbabwe or somewhere that someone actually gives a crap what the UN has to say.
If Dudley Dipstick Obama keeps screwing around with the UN he is going to destroy America.If we let him.
Take the UN to the World Court in Haque for denial of the rights of he unborn. Come on contraceptives being denied is a denial of rights. Gee the women in the world are losing the right to have sex and get pregnant if they so choose.
Now we know where Odumbo got his talking points - Agenda 21.
Tell the UN to pound sand.
Can’t wait to see the massive outrage from muslims that human rights trump allah’s laws.
"Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.... These are the eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator Himself in all His dispensations conforms; and which He has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions. Such, among others, are these principles: that we should live honestly, should hurt nobody, and should render to everyone his due.... This law of nature... is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this."-- William Blackstone
"The supreme power in a state is jus dicere [to declare the law only]: jus dare [to give the law], strictly speaking, belongs alone to God.... There must be in every instance a higher authority, [namely,] God. Should an act of Parliament be against any of His natural laws, which are immutably true, their declaration would be contrary to eternal truth, equity, and justice, and consequently void."
-- American patriot James Otis
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst punishment."
-- Cicero
"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."
-- Frederick Bastiat, The Law
"Life, faculties, production in other words, individuality, liberty, property this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
- Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850), par. L. 4-6.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
-- The Declaration of Independence
US out of the UN, UN off US soil!
Abort the UN.
Periodic abstinence (about 7 days per month)--- Natural Family Planning --- is effective afor everyone and particularly valuable for the poor, because it does not require any kind of doctor-supported dosages,injections or implantations; is ethially acceptable to all religious faith groups; has no medical side-effects or counter-indications; has zero costs; empowers couples to achieve or avoid pregnancy as their own judgment may determine; and cannot be used coercively by the State.
Odd how they skip that one.
Seriously, you are right. There is also the little talked about connection between abortion and breast cancer.
I can understand the UN’s desire for wholesale abortion and contraception, given its record of rape and child sexual abuse in most of the countries where its “peacekeepers” have been deployed. Kill the evidence.
I can understand the UN’s desire for wholesale abortion and contraception, given its record of rape and child sexual abuse in most of the countries where its “peacekeepers” have been deployed. Kill the evidence.
The logo should read “By choice, not by UN force.”
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The UN is amazingly getting more and more evil. The UN should be kicked off US soil and should not get one red cent from the US either. The woman and child in the photo look afraid. They should be afraid of the UN.
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The UN is amazingly getting more and more evil. The UN should be kicked off US soil and should not get one red cent from the US either. The woman and child in the photo look afraid. They should be afraid of the UN.
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