Posted on 06/14/2016 6:07:13 AM PDT by marshmallow
Dublin, Ireland, Jun 13, 2016 / 03:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pro-life groups in Ireland are charging that a United Nations human rights committee contradicted its mission when it ruled that the Republic of Ireland’s laws against abortion violated a woman’s rights.
The ruling’s critics included Niamh Ui Bhriain of Ireland’s Life Institute.
“Instead of protecting the most vulnerable, the U.N. has chosen, yet again, to champion abortion, and has trampled on the right of people with disabilities,” she said. She charged that the committee “seriously undermined its credibility by rushing to support abortion.”
Ui Bhriain told CNA the committee used “the ugly language of discrimination” in using terms like “fetal abnormality.”
“Their reasoning is so distorted that it has lost all meaning,” she said. “Abortion is inhumane, and the U.N. should seek to find progressive answers to assist women who are told their babies may not live for long after birth.”
The Republic of Ireland’s constitution equally recognizes the right to life of both the mother and her unborn child in its Eighth Amendment, against abortion. Pro-abortion rights lobbyists have targeted the amendment for repeal.
Members on the human rights committee of the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights called for legal changes, including constitutional changes, to ensure “effective, timely and accessible procedures for pregnancy termination in Ireland.”
The committee, in their ruling distributed June 9, stated that the Irish government must compensate a woman who wanted a legal abortion, saying that the country’s laws against abortion violated her rights to freedom from cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
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In other news, Ireland hears a buzzing sound from someplace near New York, then shrugs its shoulders and moves on.
While we’re on the topic of exiting, exiting the UN is also something that should be done.
Actually, dismembering the UN would be better still.
Need to get the U.S. out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of the U.S. Of course, the Birch Society has been saying this for forty years, and they are accused of being knee-jerk, paranoid, right-wing extremists for it.
The UN violates human rights everyday.
But no one seems to get too worked-up over that fact.
How many of the Muslim countries ban abortion? Any news from the UN on them??
Mostly the UN exists to condemn Israel. Condemning Israel takes up 96% of their time. The other 4% involves condemning The US and other Christian countries.
Being correct is apparently the leading cause of being thought to be wrong by progressives.
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