{"id":268976,"date":"2022-05-27T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T23:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=268976"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:30:02","slug":"world-health-organization-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/world-health-organization-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. legislators condemn new WHO abortion guidelines as &#8216;reckless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/u-s-lawmakers-condemn-new-who-abortion-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C-FAM<\/a>) &#8212; In a bi-cameral letter released on the eve of the World Health Assembly, U.S. Congressmen have condemned the World Health Organization\u2019s abortion guidelines as \u201cextreme\u201d and \u201creckless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guidance will likely cause severe and irreversible harm not only to U.S. citizens, but also to women and children worldwide,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/c-fam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WHOLetter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states the letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, signed by fifty-five U.S. Senate and House members, criticized the international health agency for promoting dangerous abortion protocols, \u201ctrampling\u201d on sovereignty and infringing on conscience rights.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/white_paper\/the-world-health-organizations-abortion-overreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion guidelines issued in March<\/a>\u00a0of this year call on countries to remove all legal and policy restrictions on abortion, in line with the demands of abortion industry lobby groups. The guidelines were drafted by a litany of pro-abortion groups from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The updated WHO guidelines describe abortion as a human right, promoting it as an intervention with minimal risks to women, including \u201cself-care\u201d abortions without the oversight of health professionals. The guidelines call on countries to remove conscience protections for health workers who object to performing abortions or referring women for abortions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-sepsis-death-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Abortion pill confirmed to have led to sepsis and death for UK woman<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Congressional letter chastises Tedros for the WHO\u2019s interference in \u201cmatters far out of their jurisdiction\u201d and for endangering women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the World Health Organization guidelines are not legally binding on any country, we are concerned that the organization is attempting to delegitimize the will of all sovereign nations by falsely asserting that abortion is a human right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers wrote they were \u201castonished\u201d by the international health agency\u2019s attempts to \u201cdehumanize preborn children and assert that the rights of the preborn do not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo categorize abortions as self-care,\u201d the letter states, \u201cstrips away the humanity and dignity of a preborn child but also contradicts international standards recognizing the preborn child as [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/u-s-lawmakers-condemn-new-who-abortion-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>continue reading at C-Fam.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s Note: Lisa Correnti writes for C-Fam. This <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/u-s-lawmakers-condemn-new-who-abortion-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by C-Fam (Center for Family &amp; Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/\"><i>https:\/\/c-fam.org\/<\/i><\/a><i>). This article appears with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; C-FAM) &#8212; In a bi-cameral letter released on the eve of the World Health Assembly, U.S. Congressmen have condemned the World Health Organization\u2019s abortion guidelines as \u201cextreme\u201d and \u201creckless.\u201d \u201cThis guidance will likely cause severe and irreversible harm not only to U.S. citizens, but also to women and children worldwide,\u201d\u00a0states the letter\u00a0addressed 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