{"id":190743,"date":"2018-11-10T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=190743"},"modified":"2018-11-07T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T05:16:39","slug":"un-human-rights-countries-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/un-human-rights-countries-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Human Rights Committee says countries ‘must’ legalize abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations in Geneva adopted a document that puts pressure on pro-life countries around the world to change their laws. The document, General Comment No. 36<\/a>, replaces comments adopted by the committee 30 years ago on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Specifically, the recent document states that protecting the rights of all human beings means states \u201cmust\u201d legalize abortion.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Abbamonte of the pro-life Population Research Institute explains<\/a>, \u201cThe ICCPR is one of the most important and widely ratified international human rights treaties drafted through the U.N. system.\u201d The reason why General Comment No. 36 is of importance, Abbamonte adds, is that its adoption \u201cwill inevitably provide pro-abortion activists in the U.N. system with sufficient grounds to place considerable pressure on pro-life countries to legalize abortion.\u201c<\/p>\n