{"id":333261,"date":"2025-06-25T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=333261"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:03:22","slug":"abortion-group-un-committee-redefine-forced-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-group-un-committee-redefine-forced-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion group, UN committee try to redefine ‘forced pregnancy’ as denial of any abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NEW YORK, C-Fam<\/a>) A UN committee of human rights experts told the Government of Guatemala that its restrictive abortion laws must change. Unlike many non-binding recommendations of UN rights bodies, the opinion in this case is binding to a limited degree.<\/p>\n

The Human Rights Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the UN civil rights treaty, told the small Central American nation that its abortion laws violate its human rights obligations. The opinion of the UN treaty body is doubly controversial. Not only does the opinion call for legal abortion. It attempts to redefine the technical legal term \u201cforced pregnancy\u201d to include any denial of abortion.<\/p>\n

The committee supported allegations from the abortion law firm Center for Reproductive Rights that Guatemala had allowed the public health system to perpetrate a \u201cforced pregnancy\u201d on a 14 year old. The girl was denied an abortion under Guatemala\u2019s laws and complained of being depressed and suicidal as a result. The global abortion law firm with a $40 million annual budget promotes an international right to abortion through international and national litigation around the world.<\/p>\n