Posted on 09/07/2020 8:02:53 AM PDT by ebb tide
NEW YORK, September 4, 2020 (C-Fam) — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he wants to “make sure that governments do not take advantage of COVID-19 to undermine sexual and reproductive rights and to put into question the services that are provided.”
Guterres said this during a virtual townhall meeting with feminists on Monday. He was responding to a question on abortion and the Trump administration’s pro-life diplomacy.
Guterres assured feminists he will “fight” governments who “put into question services that are provided” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It is clear that we are witnessing a very strong attack on all the progresses made after Beijing and in relation to sexual and reproductive health,” he said, referring to a 1995 UN conference that cemented abortion in UN policy.
“I’ve been putting this in all my interventions, and I’ve been putting this in all my policy briefs and in the country teams’ works,” he emphasized.
The feminist woman who asked the question asked specifically about abortion and the efforts of the Trump administration to keep abortion out of the UN COVID-19 response.
“As you know many of the attacks that women and girls, and gender non-conforming people, are facing are being amplified by this pandemic. And some governments, as you just heard, Poland and the U.S., are using this as an opportunity to further restrict access to abortion, to comprehensive sexuality education, and gender affirming treatment,” the woman, identified as
Sharron, said in the wind-up to her question.
“And we all know that the impact of these kinds of actions falls hardest on LBTI women, on black afro-descendant indigenous women, and other racial minorities, women with disabilities and others who face social marginalization,” she emphasized.
“What are you doing to coordinate systemic responses to some of these issues. And how can the UN and your office in particular protect access not just to services, but protection of these critical rights?” she asked.
Guterres emphasized his reports and actions to promote sexual and reproductive health, and abortion specifically, as essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. It should be pointed out that no UN document gives the Secretary General or any other UN body the right to promote abortion for any reason.
Reports of UN efforts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to promote abortion both in general and by putting pressure of specific countries prompted Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development John Barsa to write a letter to the UN Secretary General urging him to stop promoting abortion. Guterres reportedly responded saying that the UN system does not interfere in abortion politics.
In August, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Andrew Bremberg, wrote to a group of UN human rights experts to complain that they tried to interfere in U.S. abortion politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In his responses, Guterres underlined how the COVID-19 pandemic should be used as an opportunity to promote LGBTI rights and abortion.
“We need to do all the measures to respond to COVID and to respond to the economic and social impacts of COVID as an opportunity to fight discrimination and to pushback against this terrible pushback that we are witnessing in which discrimination is indeed increasing and in which basic rights, namely sexual and reproductive rights, are being put into question,” he said.
Echoing feminist talking points the he has used before, he explained, “the central question is a redistribution of power.”
Published with permission from C-Fam.
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Baby killing. Don’t be so afraid to call it what it really is.
What ever happen to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You have NOTHING without LIFE.
The UN should be #1 on trump’s list to sh!t can right after re-election. Screw the UN. get them out of our country !!
It’s time to throw the UN out of the USA and turn that building into a Trump Hotel.
As the 1950s bumper stickers correctly promoted:
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
What next? Set up Planned Parenthood office suites at the UN Building? Convenient to transportation hubs and they could offer free leases.
Where’s ANTIFA And BLM when you want them?
Time to abort the UN.
Kick it out.
Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.
More aptly, it is baby butchering when they take body parts, some preferred “fresh” just after death. But who knows, they may take them just before the killing.
I hope Trump makes withdrawing from the corrupt un and kicking them out of NYC is a cornerstone of his second term.
Do these pinkos think that PDJT just elbowed his way into the Oval Office without being elected?
Do these pinkos really not understand that PDJT was chosen by America to lead?
By exactly what authority does the UN believe it has the right to tell America what to do — much less decree what HE will allow THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to do??? Complete and utter bullshit.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Pres. Trump went on national TV and gave the UN 48 hours to vacate American soil — then 48 hours + 1 minute later, sent in demo crews? :-)
And please, no one start in with “But the media ...” I don’t give an airborne fornication about “the media”. And neither should Pres. Trump.
It way too ugly to be associated with Trump Hotels.
Make it affordable section 8 housing.
I agree 100%.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
He “won’t let Trump” stop the killing of babies?
How many divisions does he have?
The third world run UN has no power over Estados Stupidos unless we let them.
Turn it into memorial museum for the victims of global Communism.
They are on record saying that yes they do take parts from living babies.
Trump gave the ChiComs a few days to vacate their Houston consulate and they were rapidly burning documents before they left.
Wonder how big the bonfire will be at the Un when they leave.
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