Pro-lifers Celebrate Huge Win at UN Commission
by Stefano Gennarini JD, C-Fam:
The UN Commission on Population and Development ended Friday afternoon with a frustrated chairman withdrawing her draft of a resolution and the meeting ending without an agreement. The meeting had become bogged down in conflicting views of human sexuality.
The backdrop of the meeting was U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw over $75 million from the UN Population Fund, an action that sent shockwaves through the annual commission. European countries retaliated by loading up a document with controversial sexual rights language that caused member states to reject the resolution for the second time in three years.
While delegations traded blame in their parting statements at the end of the commission, the intransigence of abortion groups and their supporters from Europe and Latin America was plainly in sight.
The controversial issues included a notion called “comprehensive sexuality education” which proposes to teach young children about masturbation, homosexuality, and gender identity. The General Assembly rejected the term last November and again only a few weeks ago at the Commission on the Status of Women. The term is a priority for UN agencies and European countries.
Additionally problematic for many delegations were nine references to the phrase “sexual and reproductive health” without any qualification to make clear the phrase cannot include abortion.
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