The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has drawn sharp criticism from pro-life advocates for promoting abortion and undermining parental rights in a new general comment issued recently, which reinterprets the right to health under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to include abortion.
The committee’s General Comment No. 27, adopted on July 3, asserts that governments must ensure children’s access to “safe abortion and post-abortion care services” without parental consent, a move pro-life groups say oversteps the committee’s mandate and contradicts the protection of the unborn baby’s heartbeat
“This General Comment promotes access to safe abortion and post-abortion care services as a right of children, without parental consent,” said Stefano Gennarini, J.D., vice president for legal studies at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), in a statement.
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The document claims that denying abortion access violates children’s rights to health, life, privacy, and freedom from discrimination, urging states to decriminalize abortion and remove barriers such as parental consent laws.
Never mind that abortion kills children.
“States should ensure access to safe abortion and post-abortion care services, including by decriminalizing abortion,” the comment states, adding that “restrictive laws and policies, including parental consent requirements, violate children’s rights to health, life, privacy, and non-discrimination.”
Pro-life critics argue this interpretation distorts the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which they say does not include abortion as a right and emphasizes the protection of children before and after birth.
“The new General Comment claims that denying access to abortion violates children’s right to life, a right which the Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly extends to children before as well as after birth,” Gennarini noted.
“The UN committee’s position undermines parental rights by advocating for sexuality education and contraception access without parental involvement,” Gennarini said, emphasizing that such policies conflict with many countries’ legal and cultural frameworks
He further warned that the committee’s actions exceed its authority, as “UN experts are not empowered to create new obligations for states or reinterpret existing ones in ways that conflict with the text of human rights treaties.”
Traditional countries have resisted similar UN initiatives, with 36 delegations, including Guatemala, supporting an amendment in 2022 to remove abortion-related language from a UN resolution.
The Guatemalan ambassador declared, “Abortion is not codified in any treaty,” reflecting ongoing global pushback against abortion as a human right.
The committee’s push comes amid broader UN demographic concerns, with a June report highlighting the UN’s lowered population forecasts, projecting a global peak of 10.3 billion by 2084 due to declining fertility rates.
This underpopulation crisis, pro-life advocates argue, underscores the need to protect unborn lives rather than promote abortion. The UN’s focus on abortion access for children, critics say, ignores cultural and economic factors driving low birth rates.
“The fertility collapse is as much cultural as economic, and that the cultural factors will drive down fertility rates further and faster than in the past.”
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