{"id":287676,"date":"2023-03-22T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287676"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:08:54","slug":"united-nations-maternal-health-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/united-nations-maternal-health-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations event promotes maternal health, pro-life consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/un-event-promotes-maternal-health-pro-life-consensus\/\">New York, C-Fam<\/a>)\u00a0Attendees crowded into a conference room a week ago at UN headquarters to hear expert testimony about the importance of improving women\u2019s health without promoting abortion.\u00a0 The event took place during the Commission on the Status of Women, as delegates continued to debate over controversial language\u2014including on abortion\u2014in closed negotiations nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/media.un.org\/en\/asset\/k18\/k18b3n6zwb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a>, sponsored by C-Fam, the publisher of the Friday Fax, and the government of Guatemala, celebrated the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which was signed by over 30 countries, and affirms four pillars: the importance of women\u2019s health, the family, and national sovereignty, and reiterates the fact that abortion is not an international human right.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador of Guatemala to the UN, Ms. Carla Maria Rodr\u00edguez Mancia, told the assembly \u00a0that her government had just celebrated the first anniversary of the day of life and the family, when the country was declared the pro-life capital of Ibero-America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a political appointee of President Donald J. Trump, Valerie Huber, President of the Institute for Women\u2019s Health, played a direct role in the establishment of the Declaration. She said, \u201cI would like to commend all of us to think again before we put ideology over the life and health of women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other panelists shared their uniquely Latin American perspectives on the pro-life movement. Neydy Casillas, Vice President for International Affairs at the Global Center for Human Rights, warned the audience about how activist courts and international bodies in the Organization of American States are pressuring countries in the region to liberalize their abortion laws, despite the lack of a legal basis for doing so.\u00a0 \u201cWomen in Latin American need employment, they need access to education, they need health in general,\u201d said Casillas. \u201cThey need the means to overcome poverty.\u00a0 They need security.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/un-event-promotes-maternal-health-pro-life-consensus\/\">Read entire article at C-Fam.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0Rebecca Oas, Ph. D. writes for C-Fam. <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/un-event-promotes-maternal-health-pro-life-consensus\/\">This 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/\">https:\/\/c-fam.org\/<\/a>). This article appears with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York, C-Fam)\u00a0Attendees crowded into a conference room a week ago at UN headquarters to hear expert testimony about the importance of improving women\u2019s health without promoting abortion.\u00a0 The event took place during the Commission on the Status of Women, as delegates continued to debate over controversial language\u2014including on abortion\u2014in closed negotiations nearby. 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