At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language
Christian conservatives try to push “Family rights” into the UN, and as we’ve learned numerous far right “Family” groups in the US these are code words for anti-gay and anti-choice agendas.
The “right to life” in Article I extends to unborn life:
Whereas the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before, as well as after birth.
Article II, “Each Child has the Right to a Family,” draws on canonical language from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):
Recognizing that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
In Article III we learn that this right to a family is “the right to a married mother and father.”:
Recognizing that children and youth who reside in a stable, intact family with a married mother and father, generally exhibit greater well-being in every measurable indicator including physically, socially, emotionally, economically and academically; and that the child shall have the right, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by his or her parents (CRC Art. 7);
We call upon States Parties and the United Nations system to discourage sexual relations and childbearing outside of the marital bond, and to promote the institution of marriage as the best environment for children.
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