Kenneth Roth ..
Posted on 01/21/2020 6:31:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17, 2020 (C-Fam) — The leader of one of the world’s top human rights organizations told the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights last week that abortion is a “fundamental right” for “anyone who wants or needs it” and that arguments about the humanity of the unborn are merely “philosophical,” with no place in policy.
Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth criticized Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s basis for founding the commission. Pompeo initiated the expert body to guide the department in response to a proliferation of new rights claims that often compete against one another. Roth said that abortion has always been a human right, and only the claims to it are new. He warned against “picking and choosing” among rights.
Roth admitted that abortion is not mentioned in any of the UN human rights treaties, but said it is grounded in fundamental rights such as the right to health. He said there are “millions” of preventable deaths that could be averted by abortion, based on the presumption that women will inevitably seek out abortions, including by extremely dangerous methods, whether it is legal or not.
The reason we know abortion is a right, he said, is because “authoritative interpretations” by UN experts have said so. He said the Human Rights Committee is “not that different” from the U.S. Supreme Court, calling it the “final arbiter” of rights enumerated in the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, to which the U.S. is a party. In fact, the committee can only offer personal views and they are not binding on nations.
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PING!
“He said there are “millions” of preventable deaths that could be averted by abortion”...?! WTF ?!!!
I believe the evidence is strongly to the contrary. When abortion is restricted by law, less women seek or have them.
Or his rocker!
Please tell me THIS is satire!! I’ve just been cruising Twitter tonight, reading some true jackass statements!
If abortion is a human right that basic, then it’s a basic right for humans, men as well as women; so if a man wants to abort his child, it’s his right to do so, regardless of the will of the mother. After all, there’s no argument for the right not-to-abort.
Nope. Life Site News does NOT do satire, as far as I know.
The Leftists in their absurdity, have outdone Babylon Bee.
Yes unfortunately, madness is the norm now!
It isn’t a human rights group when you are murdering hundreds of millions of humans around the world.
These folks NEVER defend ‘human rights’ they defend ‘liberal rights’...
That’s Leftist (Satan’s minions) logic for ya, murdering babies is a right, preventing babies from being murdered is a philosophy.
Abortion is by any reasonable standard, a violation of human rights. It allows the death of every person at the most vulnerable stage in their life with no recourse whatsoever to the right to life.
The Constitution, its preamble,and every religion be damned, abortion demands the absolute right of a mother to kill her preborn offspring without recourse to any review. Every baby is subject to this absolute writ of death.
A mother shall, at her sole discretion, terminate the life of any and every child growing in her womb. Thus is morality itself rejected for the principle of absolute control over the life of a child sired by a man.
And when you consider the act of hideously murdering (harvesting?) babies to make a political point it’s utterly diabolical.
Kenneth Roth ..
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