Abortion: The Original Sin of the United Nations’ Human Rights Project

As the United Nations human rights project celebrated its seventieth anniversary last month, human rights scholars and practitioners took stock of its progress, for better or worse. Sadly, the legacy of the human rights project on protection of the unborn was largely overlooked by mainstream commentators.

Over fifty million children were aborted around the world last year alone. This is without a doubt the human rights issue of our time. Yet there was no international outcry from the United Nations. None of the myriad bodies that make up the human rights system addressed this at all. On the contrary, under the influence of human rights bodies, the entire multilateral system is promoting abortion, sometimes explicitly and sometimes stealthily, under the guise of providing “sexual and reproductive health.” No international agency has been able to escape this bureaucratic abortion trap.

The diplomats and officials that today walk the corridors of UN headquarters in New York and Geneva should be remembered as villains who closed a blind eye and abetted the abortion industry as it captured the human rights system, providing it with indispensable political and financial support as it carried out its genocidal business.