Pro-choice supporters, feminists and generally good people everywhere are rejoicing a little extra today. Why? Because a UN committee declared abortion a human right.
According to Mic.com, a woman from Peru called “K.L.” filed a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee after the Peruvian government wouldn’t allow her to get a “medically indicated” abortion back in 2001, even though she was only 17 years old, and even though her fetus would never develop a brain and die due to anencephaly, an extremely rare and fatal birth defect.
It’s a valid argument that K.L. should have been able to get an abortion solely for this reason. Actually, according to HuffPost, she really should have been—Peruvian law permits medically indicated abortions when the mother’s life is at risk.
Medically-powered reasonings aside, K.L. should have been granted the right to an abortion for the sake of her own emotions. Can you imagine nurturing something for months and months, knowing the entire time it will die—not maybe, not if. K.L. went into a deeply depressive state after her baby passed away at only four days old. Is that really a surprise?
Withholding the reproductive rights of K.L. was inhumane, unethical. She probably would have faced emotional strife even if the government did allow her to go through with an abortion. Forcing a woman to give birth to a soul that’s practically already dead isn’t right, ever.
With the UN’s new proclamation, though, the future looks bright—maybe women won’t need to fight claw and nail to make their own reproductive decisions. Abortion is a human right. Deal with it.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2016.
Then life is not. I do not acknowledge the UN as a viable entity. Cut their funding.
“…maybe women won’t need to fight claw and nail to make their own reproductive decisions. “
The Developing Fetus is an Independent Human Being. Unless there are substantive Medical Reasons to the contrary, a woman CANNOT/SHOULD NOT, independently, have the right to decide if this developing Human Being will Live or Die!!!
This is ONE unique case. But the truth is that if one has no rights, then all have no rights. It’s a zero sum gain to give a woman rights to terminate and nothing is offered to the fetus.
Nice. Termination of a defenseless human life is now a human right. What will they think of next?
Are you kidding. Democrats have progressed from liberals to progressives to socialists to Marxists and now celebrating baby killing. What could possibly be next?
FUKING CHRISTIANS NEED TO MIND THEIR OWN F;KING BUSINESS..
FCK JESUS IN THE ASS
The United Nations needs to be aborted.
Forcing a woman to carry a fetus to term is nothing short of slavery. Slavery is not allowed. Abortion should be safe and legal. Don’t like it? Don’t get one!
Create a law forcing those who are against a woman’s right to choose to pay for all of the costs involved from conception to adulthood and they will change their tune. The decision for an abortion should always remain between a woman and her doctor. It’s really nobody else’s business with the possible exception of the father. When I say nobody else’s business I’m including religious bumfucks, politicians (sometimes both of these redeeming qualities are found in the same person) and anyone who decided to chime in on this blog who isn’t willing to fully support all of the costs involved with raising a child to adulthood. The “baby savers” need to remove their heads from their asses and understand that it’s a woman’s right to choose, that decision should not ever be made by anyone else. End of discussion!
Opposing murder does not make anyone else financially responsible.
Looking through one’s comment really says an awful lot about one.
What if the grand parents were willing to “pay all the costs” as you demand? Should they have a say in it?
I don’t demand anything, except for a woman’s right to choose. Remove your head from your nether regions post haste.
If our Mexican and Central American “friends” would learn how to use birth control and abortions, maybe OUR nation wouldn’t be in such economic disarray.
Maybe comrade Marie should go on a pro abortion tour to Guatemala to make America great again!
Wow. Perhaps a few definitions are in order:
1. Fetus. By law, by medicine, and by common sense, NOT an “independent human being.” In fact, utterly dependent on the woman who carries it.
2. Murder. To cause the death of another human being (NOT “fetus”).
3. Human right. One of a number of fundamental rights of all human beings (NOT “fetuses”).
Independent has to be part of your definition to absolve your guilt. Shameful.