from Corrente.blogspot:
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(Oct. 14, 2004, AP) The United States has refused to join 85 heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, healthcare and choice about having children.
I am shocked, shocked, to hear this. America spitting in the face of world opinion. One would almost think that the current administration thinks the USA exists in a vacuum, and oh, yeah. Thats right.
The Bush administration said it withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to "sexual rights."
Which, of course, would mean the right to control one's own body. Cant have that.
Kelly Ryan, deputy assistant secretary of State, wrote to backers of the plan that the United States was committed "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
As long as that fullest enjoyment of universal human rights doesnt include the right to control ones own body, apparently. Would that be half-full, then? Not quite empty?
"The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement," Ryan said, because it "includes the concept of 'sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
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(Oct. 14, 2004, AP) The United States has refused to join 85 heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, healthcare and choice about having children.
I am shocked, shocked, to hear this. America spitting in the face of world opinion. One would almost think that the current administration thinks the USA exists in a vacuum, and oh, yeah. Thats right.
The Bush administration said it withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to "sexual rights."
Which, of course, would mean the right to control one's own body. Cant have that.
Kelly Ryan, deputy assistant secretary of State, wrote to backers of the plan that the United States was committed "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
As long as that fullest enjoyment of universal human rights doesnt include the right to control ones own body, apparently. Would that be half-full, then? Not quite empty?
"The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement," Ryan said, because it "includes the concept of 'sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
