NEW YORK, December 18, 2020 (C-Fam) — Three women of the Trump administration gave an exclusive insider view of the battle for life in U.S. foreign policy during a panel organized by the Center for Family and Human Rights [publisher of the Friday Fax].
Valerie Huber, Special Representative for Global Women’s Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services described how hard it was to convince countries to support U.S. pro-life diplomacy.
“When I started this work, I initially thought that if countries had a pro-life constitution or legislation then they would naturally want to sign on to things like this. But I learnt very quickly that was not necessarily the case,” Huber said.
Huber explained that even countries with pro-life laws had become afraid to speak out on life issues because of the “aggressive and continuing intimidation and threats.”
Working under Secretary Alex Azar at HHS, Huber was the driving force behind the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family, a declaration by 34 countries that abortion is not an international right.
“In many countries, before they agreed to sign, this went all the way to their president… So that tells you how difficult this is,”
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