Friday, March 3, 2023

UN urged to intervene over destruction of US abortion rights

"The US must be castigated on the world stage for its treatment of women, girls, and others who can become pregnant – the scale and intensity of human rights violations that the US is inflicting on its population are near unfathomable at this point," said Christine Ryan, legal director of the Global Justice Center, in a phone interview. 

"It has become almost tragically ironic that the US government uses the language of human rights to condemn state abuses against citizens of other countries, be that in Iran, or Belarus. These norms must be deployed against the state here at home as well. And for too long, the US has been able to avoid that type of international scrutiny," she said...


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