Send CEDAW back to the grave.Like vampires from B-grade horror movies, UN treaties refuse to die; they keep coming back to plague us again and again ... and again. Thus it happens that the UN CEDAW CEDAW Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (United Nations) CEDAW Component Explosives Damage Assessment Workbook (reference for blast effects software modeling) (pronounced see-daw) treaty has once more crept out of its crypt to wreak havoc. It has not received a lot of press so far, but it soon may. it has slithered back into the Senate Foreign Relations Foreign relations may refer to:
adv. To or toward that place; in that direction; there: running hither and thither. adj. by Biden. Senator Joseph Biden, that is, the committee chairman from Delaware, who has also thrown his hat into the crowded herd of Democratic presidential aspirants. Memory refresher: CEDAW stands for the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. It was signed by our "human rights President," Jimmy Carter, in 1980, as one of his last acts in office. But, you might ask, what's wrong with eliminating "discrimination against women"? Well, once again, let us remind the reader that this is the UN we're talking about, where words have very different meanings from the way they are normally understood. Remember Bela Lugosi Noun 1. Bela Lugosi - United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956) Bela Ferenc Blasko, Lugosi (and his Hollywood successors) promising the young beauty that she will enjoy eternal life in Dracula's harem? Of course, we all know that being a creepy undead un·dead adj. No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie. fangster isn't exactly all it's cracked up to be. Ditto for the promises of CEDAW's promoters. Right now, the CEDAW legions are scrambling to cover up the fact that the CEDAW Committee in the UN has been interpreting CEDAW's Article 12 to mandate abortion-on-demand worldwide. At a recent conference, CEDAW Committee Chairwoman Dubravka Siminovic was asked about the abortion connection. She asserted that "there is nothing about abortion" in CEDAW. True ... and false! Article 12 says that all countries will "ensure" that women have "access to health care service, including those related to family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. ." True, no explicit mention of abortion there. But, that has not stopped the pro-abortion advocates who run the CEDAW Committee, including Ms. Siminovic, from interpreting Article 12 as a mandate to abolish all restrictions against abortion in all of the 185 countries that have adopted it--in the name of family planning of course! "What happens is that each of these countries has to appear before a panel of 'experts' at the United Nations ... to explain how they are implementing the treaty," says Austin Ruse, who heads the Washington, D.C., office of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. According to Ruse, the CEDAW committee has directed 37 countries to change their laws on abortion. "What we could easily see, if we ratify CEDAW, is pressure to strike down parental-notification laws, to strike down laws against partial-birth abortion partial-birth abortion n. A late-term abortion, especially one in which a viable fetus is partially delivered through the cervix before being extracted. Not in technical use. , to strike down any regulation on abortion drugs like RU-486." As if the CEDAW Committee isn't radical enough, it has the help of dozens of militant feminist NGOs (non-governmental organizations) such as NOW, the Ms. Foundation, Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. , and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center summarized the matter in its 2004 monograph, Safe and Legal Abortion Is a Woman's Human Right: According to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, "discrimination against women" includes laws that have either the "effect" or the "purpose" of preventing a woman from exercising any of her human rights or fundamental freedoms on a basis of equality with men. Laws that ban abortion have just that effect and that purpose. However, abortion isn't the only issue the CEDAW Committee is meddling med·dle intr.v. med·dled, med·dling, med·dles 1. To intrude into other people's affairs or business; interfere. See Synonyms at interfere. 2. To handle something idly or ignorantly; tamper. in. "It also directed China to legalize le·gal·ize tr.v. le·gal·ized, le·gal·iz·ing, le·gal·iz·es To make legal or lawful; authorize or sanction by law. le prostitution--even though the treaty condemns it," Mr. Ruse notes. "They directed Kyrgyzstan to legalize lesbianism lesbianism: see homosexuality. lesbianism also called sapphism or female homosexuality, the quality or state of intense emotional and usually erotic attraction of a woman to another woman. . They criticized Belarus for establishing Mother's Day because they said Mother's Day promotes 'a negative cultural stereotype.'" Thomas Jacobson, liaison to the United Nations for Focus on the Family, describes CEDAW as "The Equal Rights Amendment on steroids." "It would subject every family, school and business--as well as every county, state and local office--to oversight by United Nations 'experts,'" says Jacobson. I'd prefer Bela Lugosi to the CEDAW banshees any day. Better tell your senators to send CEDAW back to the grave, where it belongs. |
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