U.S. opposes abortion language at United Nations

GENEVA, Switzerland — The United States rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution today because it included the sanctioning of abortion. The decision was praised by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach (MCCL GO), an international non-governmental organization working to secure human rights for all human beings. "The United States has rightly refused to support an effort to treat abortion as family planning," says Scott Fischbach, Executive Director of MCCL GO. "MCCL GO fully supports the U.S. decision to oppose abortion as a legitimate 'treatment' for women." Advocates of abortion on demand have worked for many years to insert abortion rights language into every conceivable UN document, treaty, and statement, regardless of whether those instruments address the care of unborn children and their mothers. Today's resolution addressed violence against women particularly in the context of war. It called for access to abortion for women and girls. U.S. First Secretary to the UN in Geneva Jason Mack articulated the Trump administration's position, which excludes abortion and abortion funding from international agreements. "We do not recognize abortion as a method of family planning, nor do we support abortion in our reproductive health assistance," Secretary Mack said to the Council. He added that the U.S. "strongly supports the spirit of this resolution and joins other members of this Council in condemning all acts of violence against women and girls." Today's statement marks the first time since the inception of MCCL GO that the U.S. delegation to the UN Human Rights Council has spoken against a resolution endorsing abortion rights. "MCCL is encouraged by the Trump administration's support of the right to life of unborn children," says Fischbach. "There is no right to abortion under international law. In fact, a foundational document of the UN, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, explicitly protects the right to life." MCCL GO is the U.N.- and OAS-accredited global outreach program of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Education Fund. Our goal is to protect as many human beings as possible from the destruction of abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. Learn more at www.mccl-go.org.