UN Children’s Rights Committee faces backlash over draft endorsing abortion and gender policies for minors – NaturalNews.com

• A new draft comment from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child promotes adolescent access to abortion and gender-related medical interventions, framing them as matters of children’s rights and “access to justice.”
• Argentina strongly criticized the draft, saying it oversteps the committee’s legal mandate, threatens national sovereignty and parental rights and misinterprets “access to justice.”
• Critics, including the Ordo Iuris Institute, warn that using “gender” rather than “sex” could lead to the endorsement of irreversible gender transition procedures for minors.
• Opponents argue the draft goes beyond the scope of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which contains no reference to abortion or gender identity and affirms protection for children “before and after birth.”
• The committee has pushed abortion access since the late 1990s, including calls to bypass parental consent and decriminalize abortion for adolescents, moves that have sparked criticism of ideological bias and disregard for national laws.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is facing mounting international criticism after reports surfaced that its upcoming draft commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child includes language supporting adolescent access to abortion and gender-related medical interventions.

The draft, currently under review, contains a “general comment” that promotes abortion access for minors and raises concerns about the erosion of parental rights under the guise of children’s “access to justice.”

In its current form, the draft asserts that a lack of “access to safe abortion services for adolescent girls” can constitute a violation of child rights, demanding “an effective remedy” where “time is of the essence.” The text also repeatedly uses the term “gender,” rather than “sex,” drawing criticism for its perceived ideological overreach.

According to the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), the committee is currently soliciting public and government input on a new general comment addressing how nations should comply with the treaty.

Critics argued that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, contains no explicit mention of abortion or gender identity. Nonetheless, the committee’s interpretation appears to extend beyond the treaty’s text, prompting accusations of overreach.

Representatives of Argentina issued a strong rebuke, warning that the proposed language could undermine national sovereignty and parental rights.

“In its current form, it exceeds the Committee’s mandate under the Convention and the UN Charter, violating the principle of good faith in treaty interpretation.”

The government also accused the committee of distorting the legal concept of “access to justice” by conflating it with “a holistic fulfillment of rights.” (Related: UN General Assembly passes resolution claiming abortion is a human right.)

Argentina also argued that the draft is redundant, noting that similar issues have been addressed in nearly half of the committee’s prior general comments, including two exclusively focused on adolescent health and development.

Concerns are also mounting among civil society organizations. The Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, a conservative legal advocacy group based in Poland, echoed these concerns. The organization warned that the commentary’s references to “gender” could be interpreted as endorsing medical transition procedures for minors, procedures that potentially cause “irreversible damage” to children who are “not yet mature.”

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has been promoting abortion for decades

The committee’s history of promoting abortion access dates back to the late 1990s.

In a 2003 general comment, it called on countries to provide “safe abortion services” where not prohibited by law. But by 2013, the committee went further, criticizing parental involvement laws and urging unfettered access to abortion for adolescents, regardless of domestic legal frameworks. Its 2016 comment on adolescence explicitly called for the decriminalization of abortion and universal access for pregnant minors.

Perhaps most controversially, in 2014, the committee ordered the Holy See to alter its teachings on abortion and homosexuality, a move that Vatican officials rejected as a violation of religious freedom and the limits of treaty interpretation.

In other words, the UN has long faced criticism for advancing a pro-abortion agenda under the banner of “human rights,” routinely pressuring countries that restrict abortion and seeking to promote it as a global right. At the same time, the organization has been accused of selectively addressing genuine human rights abuses in countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

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Sources include:

LifeSiteNews.com

C-FAM.org

Brighteon.com