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The United Nations adopted a resolution this month stating that abortion is a human right for women and girls. Titled\u00a0\u201cInternational cooperation for access to justice, remedies and assistance for survivors of sexual violence,” the resolution’s primary aim<\/a> is to condemn “all forms of sexual and gender-based violence” while\u00a0“urging all countries to provide victims and survivors access to justice, reparations and assistance.” Within the resolution, abortion is defined as a right that should be readily available to victims of sexual violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman rights include the right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality,\u201d reads the document.<\/p>\n

While more than 80 countries co-sponsored the decision to include language defining abortion as a right for women and girls, 33 nations fought against it, many of them African, including Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Senegal. Representatives from Nigeria spoke openly against the language and lobbied unsuccessfully for amendments that would change it.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0African woman to UN: Pushing abortion on Africa is colonization<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEach country should decide its abortion laws at the national level without external interference,\u201d said<\/a> a Nigerian delegate during a General Assembly debate. \u201cCountries should help women avoid abortion and provide mothers and their children with health-care and social support.” The delegate also added that placing abortion as a human right “creates the danger that women will be pressured to abort their babies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights, told Catholic News Agency<\/a> that he was not surprised to see so many African nations standing in opposition to the resolution’s language.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have the most to lose,\u201d he said. \u201cThey know what the sexual revolution is about because they can see what has happened to our country and don’t want any of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want basic medical care, clean water, safe sanitation; not the gender, reproductive health, and comprehensive sexuality education agenda that comes from the big powers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Catholic News Agency also reported that though Hungary and Poland are both considered pro-life countries, neither voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe silence of Poland, as well as Hungary, in taking a position in the international arena, represented a failure to realize the commitment made in the Geneva Consensus Declaration to defend fundamental rights and to fight to restore the true meaning of the concept of human rights,” the Polish organization\u00a0Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture said in a statement.<\/p>\n

According to C-FAM<\/a>, this is the first time that a UN resolution has considered abortion a human rights issue.<\/p>\n

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