{"id":287678,"date":"2023-03-27T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287678"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T23:49:22","slug":"un-commission-harassment-catholic-pro-lifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/un-commission-harassment-catholic-pro-lifers\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Commission begins with harassment of Catholic pro-lifers"},"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-commission-begins-with-harassment-of-catholic-pro-lifers\/\">New York, C-Fam<\/a>)\u00a0Starting this past Monday, the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) brings together thousands of abortion and sexual rights advocates to the United Nations for events in partnership with delegates, government leaders, and UN agencies, while UN member states negotiate an annual non-binding document. Despite their claims of inclusivity and diversity, the UN agencies staunchly defend progressive Western feminist ideals and have left little room for pro-family and life organizations to participate.<\/p>\n<p>The broad landscape of CSW is hostile to family and life groups, including open anti-religious and anti-Catholic statements targeting the permanent observer of the Holy See in the UN. Catholics for Choice, an abortion and homosexual\/trans advocate organization, hosted a presentation \u2014 \u00a0\u201cHow the Catholic Church uses \u2018gender ideology\u2019 to threaten human rights.\u201d The influence of the Holy See in UN negotiations and the Catholic Church at large was condemned alongside its pro-life stance and belief that men and women are complimentary sexes.<\/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>The president of Catholics for Choice, Jamie Manson, labeled the binary reality of gender as \u201cgender ideology,\u201d calling it a \u201creal idol now in the Church these days.\u201d Among other accusations against Catholic doctrine, Dianne Willman, a South-African native and self-identified \u201cpriest\u201d from the schismatic initiative Roman Catholic Womenpriests, declared the refusal of women\u2019s ordination in the Church a human rights crisis and a \u201cgender apartheid,\u201d comparing the inhumane crimes committed in the South African Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>In an event hosted by UN Women and the Generation Equality Forum for \u201cshaping a feminist digital future,\u201d Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, founder and CEO of Women at the Table, told the audience that technology must be used to ensure a progressive feminist future: \u201cthis is about control, this is about power.\u201d Throughout the CSW NGO events was a call for an international right to abortion and sexual rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/un-commission-begins-with-harassment-of-catholic-pro-lifers\/\"><em><strong>Read entire article at C-Fam.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0Craig-Austin Rose 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.\u201d<\/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)\u00a0Starting this past Monday, the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) brings together thousands of abortion and sexual rights advocates to the United Nations for events in partnership with delegates, government leaders, and UN agencies, while UN member states negotiate an annual non-binding document. 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