CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A massive, well-funded push to increase access to abortion worldwide could be underway at the United Nations, and according to one congressman it could silence faith-based organizations which oppose abortions out of conscience.<\/p>\n\tAt issue is proposed language in the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals that will eventually be voted on and adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in September, and will go into effect in 2016.<\/p>\n
\tIf the current proposed language is adopted, it could result in \u201cunfettered access to abortion\u201d around the globe, according to the office of Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who is co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.<\/p>\n
\tThe language establishes targets for global development, among them to \u201censure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services\u201d by 2030.<\/p>\n
\tThe other target in question tries to \u201censure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThis language \u2013 \u201csexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights\u201d \u2013 is interpreted to include abortion by most U.N. agencies and Western donor countries, said a former diplomat at the U.N. who participated in numerous negotiations involving sexual and reproductive health language. Such language is usually part of an agenda in which developed countries use financial incentives to pressure poor, pro-life countries to liberalize their abortion laws in accord with the U.N.\u2019s definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights.<\/p>\n
\tIn this case, the language is but a tiny part of 17 development goals and 170 targets that together establish a broad and comprehensive global agenda for the next 15 years that includes fighting poverty, ending world hunger, and promoting sustainable energy and universal education.<\/p>\n
\tThus the language is alarming especially for developing countries, Smith noted, because the massive funding required for these Sustainable Development Goals \u2013 $5-7 trillion \u2013 can also be used as an incentive for developing countries to liberalize abortion laws.<\/p>\n
\tThe goals basically state to developing countries that access to abortion and contraception \u201cis what you need if you want economic growth,\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n
\tWithout meeting the sexual and reproductive rights targets established in the development goals, poor countries could risk losing development funding. Most countries allow legal abortion in some circumstances, with only a handful either banning it outright or allowing it in all circumstances.<\/p>\n
\tThe result of the goals if the current language is adopted, Smith said, could be a massive expansion of abortion worldwide due to international pressure on countries and charities to offer abortion access.<\/p>\n
\tState and local laws limiting access to abortion could be deemed to violate the \u201cuniversal right\u201d to abortion services and could be erased. These would include laws such as a minor having to obtain parental or spousal consent to get an abortion.<\/p>\n
\tFaith-based organizations that oppose abortion out of conscience could see their funding wither as a result of these development goals, Smith explained.<\/p>\n
\tFor example, the U.S. bishops\u2019 anti-human trafficking program lost a government grant in 2011 once the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began prioritizing grants for organizations that provide abortions to trafficking victims. The bishops\u2019 program could not provide abortions, out of conscience.<\/p>\n
\tSuch an example could happen on a mass scale at the global level, Smith warned, when faith-based organizations that do not offer contraceptives or abortions out of conscience will lose funding from countries and international donors.<\/p>\n
\tThe Post-2015 goals build upon the original eight \u201cMillennium Development Goals\u201d that the U.N. set in 2000 for the next 15 years, which included cutting world poverty and reducing the spread of HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n
\tAs these goals were set to expire and in preparation for the Post-2015 agenda, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development met in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. It issued an outcome document, \u201cThe future we want,\u201d which set the table for the sustainable development goals in time for the 2013 general assembly meeting.<\/p>\n
\tThat document did not include the \u201csexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights\u201d language that the current proposed goals state, Smith noted.<\/p>\n
\tHowever, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has been pushing hard for the inclusion of the language, noting that it would constitute a \u201csea change\u201d from the original Millennial Development Goals.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, abortion is indeed a part of these reproductive rights mentioned.<\/p>\n
\tIn its Vision 2020 manifesto, \u201cSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights \u2013 a Crucial Agenda for the post-2015 Framework,\u201d the federation states that \u201csome aspects of the sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda are inadequately resourced and sorely neglected, including access to safe and legal abortion, access by adolescents, and access for the poorest and most marginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tAlso, the World Health Organization, which is the leading international health agency of the United Nations, has already made specific abortion recommendations for countries\u2019 health systems.<\/p>\n
\tIn the executive summary of its report \u201cSafe Abortion: Technical and policy guidance for health systems,\u201d the WHO states that \u201cto the full extent of the law, safe abortion services should be readily available and affordable to all women.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis means services should be available at primary-care level, with referral systems in place for all required higher-level care,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n
\tThis is evidence that WHO wants to \u201charmonize the push\u201d and \u201cintegrate\u201d abortion into normal health care worldwide, resulting in an abortion surge for the next 15 years,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
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