ABORTION ACTIVISTS CLAIM NEW "RIGHT" TO MATERNAL HEALTH

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 06/18/2010 | Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. Co-authored by Catherine Glenn Foster

[Patriot1259]

WASHINGTON DC (C-FAM) -- At the United Nations (UN)-backed Women Deliver conference in Washington DC last week, abortion activists announced the achievement of a new international human right to maternal health just three years after launching a campaign to establish it. Advocates said that the new right requires nations to liberalize abortion laws and create numerous new bureaucracies, procedures and programs.

n a paper entitled, “Preventing Maternal Mortality and Ensuring Safe Pregnancy," the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) asserted, “[W]omen’s rights to life, health, and non-discrimination entitle them” to maternal health and that “governments must ensure women’s access to high-quality, appropriate reproductive health care, abolish discriminatory laws and social practices … and allow women to make autonomous decisions regarding their reproductive lives.” The paper said this includes “contraceptives, family planning counseling, sex education, and safe abortion services.” CRR and other groups have dozens of legal cases pending in Brazil, India, South Africa and elsewhere to enact the new right. ??

Paul Hunt, former UN Special Rapporteur for health, said that human rights are not just about judicial accountability, but also discriminatory budgets and policies that require “radical” social transformation to rectify. Harvard University fellow Alicia Yamin, a founder of the campaign to establish the right, said, “Human rights needs to be an insurrectionalist discourse,” that “subverts the pathologies of power.” ??

[Venturer]

IOn think the Government should feed me, clothe me, take care of my health, and pay for my babies, and send me a check every two weeks for gas money, booze money and vacation money. It’s my right.

(Does this need a sarcasm tag)

[Slyfox]

To Tweek, or Not to Tweek

The Center for Serial Killers Rights (CSKR) asserted, “The right to non-discrimination entitle them” to do what they want and that “governments must ensure a serial killers access to high-quality, appropriate numbers of people to kill, abolish discriminatory laws and social practices … and allow serial killers to make autonomous decisions regarding their lives.” This includes “knives, guns, poison education, and safe serial killing services.” CSKR and other groups have dozens of legal cases pending in Brazil, India, South Africa and elsewhere to enact the new right.