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A new letter from pro-abortion human rights groups is urging the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the United States over alleged \u201cinhumane\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d pro-life protections for babies enacted by states since the overturning of <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, over 200 pro-abortion \u201chuman rights\u201d organizations including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International sent a <\/span>letter<\/span><\/a> outlining the \u201cdevastating human rights implications of <\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i>\u201d \u2013 the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>. The 50-page letter, which strikes an alarmist tone, states that the current state of affairs in the U.S. attacks women\u2019s bodily autonomy and \u201crejects the agency, dignity and equality of people who can become pregnant.\u201d It cites a number of biased and non-scientific sources, including news articles claiming that instances of\u00a0<\/span>medical malpractice are actually due to a lack of abortion<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abortion activist groups associated with the UN <\/span>sent a similar letter in 2021<\/span><\/a> after Texas\u2019 pro-life law was upheld, and shortly before the <\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i> decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent letter spews a broad range of <\/span>debunked<\/span><\/a> claims: that women will die without abortion, that women are currently subject to involuntary confinement, that there could be increased digital surveillance of period tracker apps, that a lack of access to abortion is a violation of religious freedom, and that abortion <\/span>has<\/span><\/i> to be offered otherwise there will be no cashflow at these facilities to support <\/span>other<\/span><\/i> forms of reproductive healthcare, lamenting that such facilities are \u201coften financially unable to stay open when abortion services become illegal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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They make no mention of the thousands of <\/span>pregnancy help centers<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>federally qualified health centers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(vastly outnumbering abortion facilities) that provide far more in the way of actual health services to women \u2013 without killing preborn babies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe US must be castigated on the world stage for its treatment of women, girls and others who can become pregnant \u2013 the scale and intensity of human rights violations that the US is inflicting on its population are near unfathomable at this point,\u201d said Christine Ryan, legal director of the Global Justice Center, in a phone interview with the <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

She also decried the lack of action of the Biden administration, <\/span>despite<\/span><\/a> a <\/span>coordinated<\/span><\/a> federal<\/span><\/a> response<\/span><\/a> to the <\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i> decision, for not doing more. \u201cThere has been an absolute calamity in terms of public health, human rights, and the response has been middling to poor,\u201d Ryan said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The abortion activist groups try to tie restrictions on abortion to almost every form of injustice that exists: gender-discrimination, racism, classism, and ageism. Citing the work of a Committee Against Torture (CAT), they go so far as to <\/span>repeat an argument<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0completely unmoored from the <\/span>reality of the violence of abortion<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0that making abortion illegal is inhumane, as \u201cdenial of abortion can result in \u2018physical and mental suffering so severe in pain and intensity as to amount to torture.\u2019\u201d Officials at the UN also referred to denial of abortion as “torture”<\/a> in 2019 as some U.S. states began to enact greater protections for preborn children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter tries to tie restrictions on abortion to almost every form of injustice that exists: gender-discrimination, racism, classism, and ageism. The letter blasts life-of-the-mother exceptions to pro-life laws, arguing that they need to outline exactly what medical diagnoses are allowed or else they are too \u201cvague\u201d or \u201cdifficult to implement in practice.\u201d But the reality is there are no reasons to directly and intentionally kill a preborn baby to treat a mother\u2019s health condition, and no law exists <\/span>preventing medical treatment to save the life of a pregnant woman<\/span><\/a>. Induced abortion is <\/span>not medically necessary<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter also decries the requirement for underage girls to notify parents prior to obtaining abortions. Yet as Live Action investigations <\/span>have shown<\/span><\/a>, unfettered access to abortion puts underage girls at increased risk of exploitation, as abortionists like Planned Parenthood have a <\/span>track record<\/span><\/a> of covering for dangerous sexual predators.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter concludes by trying to frame the overturning of<\/span> Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>, and the protection of preborn babies enacted in many states, as an unacceptable break from the country\u2019s track record for respecting and promoting human dignity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy overturning the established constitutional protection for access to abortion and through the passage of state laws, the US is in violation of its obligations under international human rights law,\u201d it reads, and ends by calling for the UN to take several actions: conduct a visitation to assess the abortion plight in America; convene \u201ca virtual stakeholder meeting\u201d; call for the US \u201cto comply with its obligations under international law\u201d; and urge \u201cprivate companies to take a number of actions to protect reproductive rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter to the UN comes after it <\/span>adopted a resolution<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last fall declaring abortion to be a human right, and just months after the government of the Philippines <\/span>rejected<\/span><\/a> a United Nations Human Rights Council recommendation to legalize abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A new letter from pro-abortion human rights groups is urging the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the United States over alleged \u201cinhumane\u201d and \u201ccruel\u201d pro-life protections for babies enacted by states since the overturning of Roe v. 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