The lawmakers urges the WHO to reject the group’s application to enter into relations, accusing the CRR of attempting to “impose abortion on all countries.”
The group, led by Rep. Andy Biggs ,to the WHO executive board Thursday morning opposing the agency’s recent decision to work with the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is set for a final vote next month. The lawmakers urged the board to reject the group’s application to enter into relations, accusing the CRR of attempting to “impose abortion on all countries.”
The Republicans alluded to “numerous examples” in which the CRR has “colluded” with United Nations staff and agencies to influence abortion rights laws in several countries. This, the lawmakers argued, is part of a broader plan by the group to “undermin sovereignty and all democratic processes.” “The Center for Reproductive Rights is a radical organization that manipulates international mechanisms to impose abortion on countries,” reads the letter, which is signed by Biggs and 25 other House Republicans. “Even though there is no internationally recognized human rights obligation with regard to abortion either by treaty or customary international law, CRR claims that such an obligation exists.
The GOP lawmakers warned the WHO is already at risk of not being trusted by a large group of people because of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing multiple pieces of legislation proposed by Republican lawmakers toThe group also cited data indicating low support among Americans to use “foreign assistance funds to perform or lobby for abortion,” according to the letter.
The letter comes less than three weeks before the WHO is set to convene the 155th session of the executive board on June 2, during which the proposal to enter into relations with the CRR will be under consideration. The
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