(C-Fam) Amnesty International and a group of other pro-abortion organizations say abortionists deserve special protection as “human rights defenders,” despite the fact that there is no international human right to abortion.
The report was written by the leading global abortion providers MSI Reproductive Choices and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the International Confederation of Midwives, and a handful of other groups whose sole focus is promoting and providing abortion internationally.
Amnesty defines “human rights defenders” as “all those who, individually or in association with others, act to defend human rights.” They say, according to the “UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders,” such people have the right to support, protection, and an enabling environment to go about their “legitimate activities defending human rights.”
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The full title of that declaration is the “UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.” The full title clearly states that it pertains to rights that are “universally recognized.” Issues like abortion, which are highly contested and have been repeatedly rejected as rights that would not meet that standard.
Nevertheless, abortion advocates insist they are human rights defenders. This circular logic has been taken up by some entities within the human rights system. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a video series in 2015 highlighting a notorious U.S. abortionists as a “human rights defender.”
To support its claim that abortion is a human right, Amnesty relies on the work of UN treaty monitoring bodies and independent experts who issue nonbinding opinions. They frequently cite each other in interpreting a right to abortion in the text of treaties that make no mention of abortion and would never have been adopted if they did….
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Editor’s Note: Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. writes for C-Fam. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (https://c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.
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