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October 26, 2017 (Every Life Counts) — The support group Every Life Counts has warmly welcomed the submission of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which says that allowing abortion on disability grounds violates the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Tanya Coonan of Every Life Counts said that parents were very pleased that the UN Committee had also rejected the “incompatible with life” label that she said was used to dehumanise and discriminate against babies with a severe disability.
“We went to the UN in Geneva in 2015 and we asked that this label be recognised as a form of discrimination which was undermining the humanity of our babies and misleading parents, so we are especially delighted that the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has rejected the ‘incompatible with life’ label,” she said.
In their response to draft General Comment No36 of the Human Rights Committee, the UN Disability Rights body wrote specifically that “Laws which explicitly allow for abortion on grounds of impairment violate the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Art,. 4,5,8).”
The move by the CRPD comes
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