Please let your Senator know to reject the UN Disability treaty (UNCRPD).

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[CThomasFan]

Why Does HSLDA Oppose the Treaty?

Promoting equal rights and protections for disabled persons around the world sounds like a great idea. But let’s take a closer look at what the treaty actually says and how it would impact the United States. Here are some of our most serious concerns.

The CRPD could threaten homeschooling rights and parental rights. It would surrender parents and caregivers’ decision-making ability on behalf of their disabled children to unelected and unaccountable UN bureaucrats. The CRPD would override existing state laws, seriously damaging states’ rights. The CRPD would surrender our nation’s sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats.

This treaty is unnecessary for the United States to sign. The U.S. is the world leader in protecting the rights of those with disabilities. Through our 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, we already provide as much or more protection for the disabled than the CRPD.

[CThomasFan]

Now that we have a republican Senate, I hope that this treaty will not come up again for a vote, but if it does your senators need to know that this is a toxic treaty that removed the parents fundamental right for making decisions for their children and gives it to the U.N. instead. The US is already a world leader in protecting the rights of the disabled. Please let your senator know to vote NO...I am in Virginia and my senators are too Dem to understand, but the rest of the new class of senators needs to know.

[PROCON]

I don’t think any legislation with the letters UN will even come near a vote in the Senate.

[DugwayDuke]

“I don’t think any legislation with the letters UN will even come near a vote in the Senate.”

There are a few I could urge Senator Sessions to support with titles something like: “A Bill to Remove the United States from the United Nations”. Or, “A Bill to Remove the United Nations from the United States”.

[huldah1776]

We should actually demand the removal of the UN every time the subject comes up. Calling Congress? Add it to the discussion.

[Rusty0604]

Articles 23 and 25 include language that establishes an obligation for the government to provide and fund abortions

http://hslda.org/docs/news/2014/201407180.asp

[Vendome]

Gimps...

[CThomasFan]

Thanks for the additional information on the treaty.

We should hope that Dems and Republicans are ALWAYS polarized. We live in different universes.

[Pecos]

That’s how the Third Reich avoided the problem of disabled children.

[citizen352]

German defendants at the Nuremburg trials after WWII cited the precedent in the United States in 1927 Buck v. Bell. The majority decision was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The US Supreme Court recommended that “feeble-minded” people should be sterilized. Germany was on trial for war crimes for sterilizing people who were “feeble-minded”. Germany sterilized people but they also killed people by the millions. It was interesting that they were citing U.S. law to defend themselves in the international tribunal.