The U.N. Loves Killing Babies
Get U.S. Out!Members of the dignified United Nations jeered and whistled catcalls at U.S. delegate Ellen Sauerbrey while she outlined U.S. policy regarding abortion, AIDS prevention, and other items.
According to a Reuters news story, the loudest jeers came when she mentioned that the U.S. policy on AIDS prevention for adolescents includes abstinence, faithfulness, and correct/consistent condom use.
Additionally, Sauerbrey requested that the document be amended to say that abortion is a matter of national sovereignty and not a human right.
Support was limited to the Vatican, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. . . . Delegates from the European Union, Asia and Africa forcefully opposed the U.S. position.
Interestingly, you might want to read the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (or read the PDF version), which was introduced two years ago tomorrow.
And to think, ten years ago I naively hung a U.N. flag in my room.
"The text of Beijing is unequivocally clear. We should not spend hours splitting hairs over phrases that mean the same thing," said New Zealand's U.N. Ambassador Don Mackay, speaking for his country, Canada and Australia.
My thought exactly. If you all agree about the "same thing", then why not just quickly pass the amendment?
