The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Final Outcome

This week's Friday Fax from C-FAM has good news:

The just-concluded UN meeting on the rights of persons with disabilities was on balance a success for pro-lifers. Negotiations came down to the wire on the last day of the proceedings, after delegates hammered out the issue of “reproductive health” round the clock for the last two days. The ad hoc committee adopted the full treaty late on Friday night, completing four years of negotiations

• Any new right for persons to “experience their sexuality” and “have sexual and other intimate relationships” was completely rejected.
• the inclusion of the right of disabled to food and fluid, denying euthanasia proponents legal footing to starve or dehydrate the disabled to death
• Finally, though the term “sexual and reproductive health” made it into the final document, it only came after all sides of the abortion debate reached consensus that the phrase did not include abortion

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