"Enforced pregnancy".

At first sight the term "enforced pregnancy" would seem to mean making a woman pregnant through rape, or artificial insemination, or some other means. But the feminists who dominate the U.N. have a much more extensive understanding of it.

The U.S. Catholic weekly, The Wanderer, cites a definition given in a 1996 article on Advancing Reproductive Rights beyond Cairo and Beijing:

"Forced pregnancy occurs when abortion following rape is legally denied, practically obstructed, or unacceptable to women themselves on religious or cultural grounds."

The concept first appeared in U.N. debates on the Bosnian conflict, where it was reported that women were forcibly impregnated and had their babies taken from them. An aggressive campaign by the feminists has sought to expand the term to mean the lack of "liberal" abortion laws, i.e., "laws" permitting abortion. In their view, it is irrelevant whether the pregnancy resulted from rape or consenting sex, because the purpose of restrictions on abortion is "to force" continued pregnancy on women and thus submit them to a kind of slavery. A resolution of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, passed in Geneva at the end of April, 1998, condemned all violations of the rights of women in situations of armed conflict, including "forced pregnancy."