United Nations urges more abortion.

The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Poland to "liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion" in its periodic review of compliance with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The UN committee based its recommendations on the work of radical feminist and pro-abortion groups led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Polish Federation on Women and Family Planning. Yet the ICCPR not only doesn't mention abortion, it states: "Every human being has the inherent right to life."

The New York-based Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute quoted Poland's Ewa Kowalewski, an opponent of the taking of innocent life in the womb and the director of Human Life International Europe: "A committee of the UN said that abortion is a human right according to international law. Where is this right? Show me this right!" She claims that the UN report should be looked upon as a warning sign to the rest of the world: "It is against our sovereignty, and if they can do it to Poland, they can do it everywhere."

Kowalewski pointed out that the work of the radical feminists and pro-abortionists relied upon by the UN agency is "full of inaccurate data" such as the claim that 200,000 illegal abortions occur in Poland annually. Instead, she noted that a Polish government estimate placed the number of such abortions in the hundreds.

The UN report also urges Poland to track doctors who refuse to participate in abortion, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation," and to alter the teaching of sex education in the schools in order to meet the Human Rights Committee's standards.