[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] U.S. Drops Demand for Abortion Reference = NO to equality for women?
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U.S. Drops Demand for Abortion Reference
Fri Mar 4, 8:46 PM ET
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World - AP Asia
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - Facing overwhelming opposition, the United States on
Friday abandoned attempts to amend a declaration reaffirming the
blueprint to achieve equality for women, saying it was satisfied the
document did not guarantee the right to abortion.
Hours after the United States backed down, the 45-member U.N.
Commission on the Status of Women unanimously adopted the declaration
endorsing the platform for action adopted at the 1995 U.N. women's
conference in Beijing.
The U.S. attempt to amend the declaration has taken the spotlight at
the two-week review meeting, angering many governments and some 6,000
representatives of women's and human rights organizations. They had
hoped to focus on obstacles to women's equality in the economy, the
family, education and political life =97 not on the abortion issue.
U.S. Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey said the United States sought to amend
the declaration because of concerns that advocacy groups were
attempting to hijack the term "reproductive health services" in the
Beijing document and define it in a way that guarantees the right to
abortion.
The proposed U.S. amendment would have reaffirmed the Beijing platform
and a declaration adopted with it =97 but only "while reaffirming that
they do not create any new international human rights, and that they
do not include the right to abortion."
But the United States, a member of the commission, found itself
virtually alone. Nations from Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia
all opposed opening up the one-page document drafted by the Commission
on the Status of Women.
On Thursday, Sauerbrey announced at a closed-door meeting that the
United States was prepared to drop the last phrase of the amendment
referring to "the right to abortion" but still wanted a reaffirmation
that Beijing did not create any new human rights.
The reaction was again overwhelmingly negative.
Nilcea Freire, Brazil's minister of state for women's affairs, said
not a single country supported the revised U.S. amendment, and every
speaker insisted that the declaration be left untouched.
On Friday morning, Sauerbrey reiterated that the U.S. goal was to
clear up what the United States believes has been misinterpretation of
the Beijing platform, and to make sure that decisions about abortion
are made at the national level.
"We have heard from countries that our interpretation is their
interpretation," Sauerbrey told reporters. "So the amendment, we
recognize, is really redundant, but it has accomplished its goals."
The United States voted for the declaration, which reaffirmed the
Beijing document, welcomed progress toward achieving gender equality,
stressed that challenges remain, and "pledge to undertake further
action to ensure their full and accelerated implementation."
After its adoption, Sauerbrey said the United States understood "that
there is international consensus that the terms 'reproductive health
services' and 'reproductive rights' do not include abortion or
constitute support, endorsement, or promotion of abortion."
The Vatican (news - web sites) representative said the Holy See would
have preferred that the declaration state clearly that Beijing "did
not create new human rights, including the right to abortion."
Alexandra Arriaga, director of government relations at Amnesty
International USA, welcomed the U.S. decision, saying, "it reaffirms
that women's rights are human rights."
June Zeitlin, executive director of the Women's Environment and
Development Organization, said she was pleased but not surprised that
the United States dropped the amendment in the face of solid opposition.
"We're very pleased that the declaration can be approved today, and
that we can now move to focus on how to achieve implementation on what
kind of concrete actions government can take =97 which is what we all
came here to talk about," she said.
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