December 7, 2018 (C-Fam) – Trump administration pro-life diplomacy has led to a series of unprecedented votes in UN committees to exclude abortion from UN policy, but to roll back advances achieved during the Obama administration, a stronger political will is needed.
U.S. diplomats introduced, withdrew, and then reintroduced a volley of amendments from the floor of the third committee to either qualify or delete the term “sexual and reproductive health” in several UN resolutions on women and children, a term that has become ubiquitous in UN agreements in recent years.
Predictably, the U.S. amendments were all defeated, though a maximum of 44 countries did support one of the five U.S. amendments presented on the problematic term.
The unprecedented votes showed just how much “sexual and reproductive health” remains contested, despite efforts to make the term ubiquitous. It demonstrates that the U.S. is not isolated in its pro-life position despite European efforts to make it appear so.
While the U.S. took deliberate steps throughout negotiations to remove the anti-life language, they stopped well short of what pro-life Member States wanted and what pro-life organizations asked President Trump to do in a letter addressed to him prior to the commencement
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