Posted on 08/27/2005 6:28:48 AM PDT by AliVeritas
At a recent UN conference held to negotiate a treaty on the rights of the disabled, the concerns of a pro-life NGO leader were openly criticized by the conference chairman, a highly unusual move given the extreme collegiality that typically prevails at such meetings. The exchange took place during an August 8 meeting of the Sixth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
Patrick Buckley, a representative of the London-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, voiced concern over Article 21 in the working draft of the treaty. Article 21 says signatory nations are required to "[p]rovide persons with disabilities with the same range and standard of health and rehabilitation services as provided other citizens, including sexual and reproductive health services." Buckley feared that the inclusion of "sexual and reproductive health services" in a legally binding treaty could be later interpreted by enforcement committees to mean that abortion is a universal right. Defenders of Article 21 say it is only intended to ensure that nations provide those with disabilities the same rights as the rest of its citizens.
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Our ofunders recognized and enumerated the opposite...the unalienable right TO LIFE, endowed by God Himself.
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Hi Jeff, long time no see.
I smell the beginning of a type of Groningen Protocol. This isn't the first time this has happened either.
People have to understand, when we cried slippery slope before Roe...all thought we were batty. With the starving of Schiavo it opened up an entirely new can of worms. Fiends like Felos and Euthanasia Society couldn't wait for that woman to die to push legislation in 14 states.
Check out: http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/
Are you sh*tt*ng me?
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