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  • Cruz Explains Why Americans with Disabilities Will Not Benefit from U.N. Disabilities Treaty

    11/07/2013 12:27:25 PM PST · by SoConPubbie · 11 replies
    Heritage.org ^ | November 7, 2013 at 2:43 pm | Steven Groves
    The United States is the world leader regarding the rights of people with disabilities. But a United Nations treaty seeks to use Americans’ concern for the disabled to undermine U.S. sovereignty.It’s time for proponents of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to come clean about this treaty. They claim, falsely, that it would help Americans with disabilities who are traveling abroad. But as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said at The Heritage Foundation recently: "Ratification is not going to materially change the degree of compliance by foreign nations, but it is going to open avenues to undermine...