{"id":204315,"date":"2019-06-11T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204315"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:23:06","slug":"united-nations-abortion-bans-torture-extremist-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/united-nations-abortion-bans-torture-extremist-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Backwards: United Nations calls abortion bans ‘torture’ and ‘extremist hate’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion advocates have raged about the pro-life “heartbeat bills” in Alabama<\/a> and Georgia<\/a>, with the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights now also chiming in, declaring it a crisis and a form of torture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not called it out in the same way we have other forms of extremist hate, but this is gender-based violence against women, no question,\u201d Kate Gilmore said in an interview with the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s clear it\u2019s torture \u2013 it\u2019s a deprivation of a right to health.” She also added that it was a “crisis directed at women.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0United Nations Human Rights Committee attacks U.S. pro-life laws<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations has long taken a pro-abortion stance; before Ireland legalized abortion, for example, the U.N. slammed the formerly pro-life country<\/a> as “cruel.” The U.N. also called for pro-life laws in the United States to be revoked earlier this year<\/a>, calling them “incompatible” with international law. The Human Rights Committee likewise has called on every pro-life country to legalize abortion<\/a>. But abortion itself is truly cruel…<\/p>\n