Posted on 10/13/2004 5:14:37 PM PDT by SmithL
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States has refused to join 85 other heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, health care, and choice about having children.
President Bush's administration withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to "sexual rights."
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Ryan wrote to organizers of the statement that that the United States was committed to the Cairo plan of 1994 and "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
"The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement," Ryan said, because it "includes the concept of `sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
Ryan did not elaborate on the Bush administration's objections to the phrase "sexual rights," but at past U.N. meetings U.S. representatives have spoken out against abortion, gay rights and what they see as the promotion of promiscuity by giving condoms to young people to prevent AIDS.
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Good.
How many pockets will get lined with this UN Plan
Americans - men and women - have more rights and opportunities than citizens anywhere else in the world. We don't need a stupid UN statement to make it so.
Read that to mean "the right to enjoy sex at someone else's expense."
Americans - men and women - have more rights and opportunities than citizens anywhere else in the world. We don't need a stupid UN statement to make it so.
The US should make its own legislation in these areas, not be government by a "global test" legislated by international, unelected and unaccountable international bureaucracies and NGOs. Good for Bush.
Bravo to the U.S. of A. !!
Murderers will pay!
Eighty-five Lemmings Jump Off Cliff; Bush Administration Only Holdout.
The left, here, will implement it, anyway.
Nobody has a "right" to health care, education, a job, a home, a certain lifestyle, etc. You have a right to pursue happiness, and to be left alone to make a living. If you provide these "rights," someone else will end up paying for it. Let's see: No job, but I have a right to a home? No job, but I have a right to health care? No job, but I have a right to education? I can force someone to hire me because I have a right to a job? This is typical leftist drivel.
Eighty-Five School Kids Stick Tongues On Frozen Flagpole; Little George Bush Refuses To Play.
"Bravo to the U.S. of A. !!"
May G-d truly bless America!
The UN needs to move to Paris, NOW.
"U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, health care, and choice about having children"
READ: every woman's right to sex education and abortions. Nothing new here, move on.
Which is all the more reasomn why they MUST be thoroughly defeated on Nov 2.
This article qualifies for a barf alert. China? Oh please, they practice government sponsored infanticide there. And what exactly is a world leader? I hadn't realized that we were holding worldwide elections to appoint U.S. presidents.
Bush is correct to not succumb to the:
I'm not going to vote for Bush.. He is a rino...
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