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UPDATE 11/28/12: On November 27 the Senate
voted 61-36 to begin consideration of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a treaty which requires 67
votes for ratification. A vote is likely within days.
Oppose Ratification of
the UN Treaty on Disability Rights
 The United Nations already operates
with an array of subsidiary organizations, conventions, commissions,
and institutes that seek to govern a growing total of every area of
human activity. There is, for instance, UNESCO for education, UNICEF
for children, UNIFEM for Women, WHO (World Health Organization) for
health, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) for human
sustenance, etc. And these UN subdivisions we have just listed do
not include UN banking institutions, military operations, trade
organizations, and other branches of the ever-growing accumulation
of power by the world organization.
Not satisfied with the
clout it already has, the UN is now seeking ratification of a
“Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” (CRPD).
Adopted by the UN in December 2006, President Obama instructed U.S.
Ambassador Susan Rice to sign it on July 29, 2009. Obama now wants
the Senate to ratify it.
Labeled another “piece of global
mischief” by veteran UN scrutinizer Phyllis Schlafly, the CRPD,
which is actually a treaty that would require two-thirds approval by
the Senate, has already been ratified by 117 of the 193 UN nations.
She considers as “bizarre” any assertion that “the UN can provide
more benefits or protections for persons with disabilities than the
U.S.”
Do our country and its handicapped citizens need the UN
to tell us how to treat persons with disabilities? We already have
the Americans with Disabilities Act and a handful of other laws
dealing with this segment of the population, even a 1984 law known
as the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act. The
answer is no; we don’t need the UN for this purpose.
But the
goal of this additional intrusion into our nation’s affairs isn’t as
much about addressing the difficulties of persons with handicaps as
it’s about the UN gaining supremacy over the laws and legal
processes of our country and others. CRPD would require all
participating countries to submit reports to a “committee of
experts.” It seeks to grant governments and the UN itself authority
to decide, for instance, whether parents of a disabled child are
complying with the measure’s broad requirements. Its loose
definitions leave open intrusion into an array of areas that are
currently being addressed by nations that already have humane laws
and practices.
Additionally, by requiring nations to provide
the handicapped with “affordable healthcare” that includes abortion,
CRPD has delighted feminists and earned the backing of the
pro-abortion lobby. A pertinent phrase appearing in the CRPD calls
for guarantees that the handicapped and disabled will be assured
“reproductive health,” something defined by Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton when she told a congressional panel that
“reproductive health includes access to abortion.” Mrs. Schlafly
also sees a potential for CRPD to threaten homeschooling families,
especially any with children who are handicapped or disabled. The
UN’s “committee of experts” would decide whether a family is acting
responsibly.
CRPD is a 25-page document whose Preamble begins
by haughtily “recognizing” that the combination of the UN’s
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN’s International
Covenants on Human Rights guarantees that “everyone is entitled to
all of the rights and freedoms set forth therein.” But those rights
can be easily abolished according to these very documents. Article
29 of the Universal Declaration states this very clearly: “These
rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the United Nations.” In other words,
there are plenty of rights that should be enjoyed by everyone but if
we (the UN) find them objectionable, they don’t exist.
As can
be seen in the UN’s official documents and in the conduct of the UN
since 1945, the world body is constantly accumulating power. It has
already gained much and CRPD is another step toward total
power.
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), a powerful member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has indicated a desire to have
the Senate vote on ratification of CRPD. Contact each of your senators and ask them to vote NO
should the measure be brought up. But don’t stop there. Ask each senator and congressman to back legislation
to Get US out! of the United Nations.
Thanks.
Your
Friends at The John Birch Society
(The above article was first published as "Beware
Another UN Power Grab" by John F. McManus in the October 2012 JBS
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