Paul Tuns:
On Nov. 17, Lila Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, addressed the United Nations Transatlantic Summit in New York and called upon the UN to recognize that abortion “is a contradiction of every human right” and urged the body to pass a resolution to end abortion worldwide.
The summit commemorated the 75th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a document, Rose noted, that affirms the fundamental “right to life, liberty and security.” It also affirms freedom from “torture or … cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
The UN’s Declaration further states that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”
Rose told delegates that the UN routinely violates the UN Declaration of Human Rights with its incessant promotion of legalization of abortion in all countries.
“Abortion not only violates the unborn child’s right to life,” Rose said, but “also violates the child’s right to be free from slavery and their right to be free from torture,” because abortion involves an “excruciating, torturous killing.”
Rose reminded attendees that “Most of the members of this great institution that is the United Nations outright support and justify this human rights abuse,” if not at the UN, at least domestically, because “Every year, globally, 70 million children are slaughtered by abortion.”
Rose called abortion “by far, the worst human rights crisis of the last half century, one that is ongoing, and one that few today even acknowledge.”
The pro-life activist noted that the UNDHR was adopted in 1948 in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, during which Jews and others were “cruelly tortured and degraded as if they were less than animals.” Rose said the same thing is happening today with abortion. “Many powerful people today argue that a human in the womb is not a human, not a life, not worthy of the basic human rights enumerated in the Declaration,” she said. “Instead, they argue that one must pass through the magical birth canal in order to receive one’s humanity. How ludicrous.”
Rose said that a mother’s womb “should be a safe haven, a place of nourishment and love,” but “has become a war zone” where innocent babies who “cannot rally … cannot vote… cannot demonstrate” are destroyed by abortionists. “It’s because the unborn cannot speak that the born — the powerful — have succeeded in trampling on their rights,” she said.
