UN considers recognizing sexual rights for ten-year-old children

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From C-FAM, via LifeSite:
The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten.

Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”

Currently international law does not recognize a “right” to sexual and reproductive health and certainly does not recognize this right in the case of minors. But just last year, the UN Special Rapporteur for Health, Anand Grover, stirred up significant controversy when he not only claimed that a “right” of sexual and reproductive health existed but attempted to define that right as including access to abortion, contraception, and sexual education.

The association of this right with youth by the Secretary General and the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), especially children, is more controversial since the right could be defined as including access to abortion and contraception.

Before you say anything, I recognize that this is a press release from an organization that has a definite agenda. Therefore, nobody should consider this to be a neutral news report.

Because it is a press release from an advocacy organization (one that I support, but an advocacy organization nonetheless), I did some checking.

The UN Commission on Population and Development will be holding their 45th session on 23-27 April 2012. The topic of this assembly will be Adolescents and Youth.

One of the reports prepared in preparation for this meeting was the “Report of the Secretary General”

One of the recommendations in that report states:

Sexual and reproductive services should be an integral part of the minimum health-care package offered to adolescents and young people at all levels of the health-care system, but particularly under primary care…

(It is widely accepted that the term “sexual and reproductive services” includes abortion and the provision of abortifacient drugs)

Another recommendation:

Special efforts are needed to provide family planning services to young women and men, whether they are married or unmarried…

One thing that is conspicuous because of its absence is a discussion of cultural mores…to encourage delaying sexual contact until marriage and then to support a lifelong marital contract and encourage marital fidelity as a positive cultural value (or other such language).

Yet another report of the Secretary General, entitled, Monitoring of population programmes, focusing on adolescents and youth has this as some of its recommendations:
  1. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health should be included as a development priority, as well as a human right, with appropriate budgets. Legal, rights and policy frameworks for adolescent sexual and reproductive health remain weak and services inadequate. There continue to be systemic challenges to women’s empowerment, gender equality and young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health, including social attitudes and practices.
  2. There are many barriers that hinder access to an integrated package of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services, especially for vulnerable groups. Among those are legal and policy issues, stigma and discrimination and social and cultural factors. It is vital to extend coverage of key interventions, including changing social norms and laws. Opportunities exist to reshape the legal and social milieu that compounds vulnerability and marginalization, leading to HIV infection.
(snip)
  1. Health policies, health service delivery systems and financing should ensure access to comprehensive, age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and services for both married and unmarried young people. These should include contraceptive information and services, including male and female condoms for the prevention of pregnancies and HIV infections; care in pregnancy and childbirth; safe abortion services…
Seems to me that, although the LifeSite/C-FAM piece is clearly advocacy journalism, they got it pretty well right…at least if the UN’s own documents are to be believed. I just wish they’d have included links to their sources rather than making me go through the hassle of finding them on my own.
 
Boy, this makes me want to jump on the “progressive” bandwagon!
 
markomalley said:
From C-FAM, via LifeSite:
The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten.

Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”

Currently international law does not recognize a “right” to sexual and reproductive health and certainly does not recognize this right in the case of minors. But just last year, the UN Special Rapporteur for Health, Anand Grover, stirred up significant controversy when he not only claimed that a “right” of sexual and reproductive health existed but attempted to define that right as including access to abortion, contraception, and sexual education.

The association of this right with youth by the Secretary General and the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), especially children, is more controversial since the right could be defined as including access to abortion and contraception.

Before you say anything, I recognize that this is a press release from an organization that has a definite agenda. Therefore, nobody should consider this to be a neutral news report.

Because it is a press release from an advocacy organization (one that I support, but an advocacy organization nonetheless), I did some checking.

The UN Commission on Population and Development will be holding their 45th session on 23-27 April 2012. The topic of this assembly will be Adolescents and Youth.

One of the reports prepared in preparation for this meeting was the “Report of the Secretary General”

One of the recommendations in that report states:

Sexual and reproductive services should be an integral part of the minimum health-care package offered to adolescents and young people at all levels of the health-care system, but particularly under primary care…

(It is widely accepted that the term “sexual and reproductive services” includes abortion and the provision of abortifacient drugs)

Another recommendation:

Special efforts are needed to provide family planning services to young women and men, whether they are married or unmarried…

One thing that is conspicuous because of its absence is a discussion of cultural mores…to encourage delaying sexual contact until marriage and then to support a lifelong marital contract and encourage marital fidelity as a positive cultural value (or other such language).

Yet another report of the Secretary General, entitled, Monitoring of population programmes, focusing on adolescents and youth has this as some of its recommendations:
  1. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health should be included as a development priority, as well as a human right, with appropriate budgets. Legal, rights and policy frameworks for adolescent sexual and reproductive health remain weak and services inadequate. There continue to be systemic challenges to women’s empowerment, gender equality and young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health, including social attitudes and practices.
  2. There are many barriers that hinder access to an integrated package of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services, especially for vulnerable groups. Among those are legal and policy issues, stigma and discrimination and social and cultural factors. It is vital to extend coverage of key interventions, including changing social norms and laws. Opportunities exist to reshape the legal and social milieu that compounds vulnerability and marginalization, leading to HIV infection.
(snip)
  1. Health policies, health service delivery systems and financing should ensure access to comprehensive, age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and services for both married and unmarried young people. These should include contraceptive information and services, including male and female condoms for the prevention of pregnancies and HIV infections; care in pregnancy and childbirth; safe abortion services…
Seems to me that, although the LifeSite/C-FAM piece is clearly advocacy journalism, they got it pretty well right…at least if the UN’s own documents are to be believed. I just wish they’d have included links to their sources rather than making me go through the hassle of finding them on my own.
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This is not Catholic Doctrine: it is an awareness of a deep and profound problem. Children pregnancies are a hard to tackle phenomena but should be addressed properly.

The CC already addresses the problem through the multiple organizations run by nuns and priests and take care of children and their babies. And the CC do it the right way, through love and care and avoiding abortion.

Praise to the brave nuns, priests and lay people who fight this problem.
 
I predicted this LONG ago, but liberals kept calling it a slippery slope fallacy. There are slippery slopes and leftwingers are too brainwashed to think clearly. My next prediction is children will be able to give consent to adults. After all, if children can give sexual consent to each other, why can’t they consent to someone they love who is an adult? 😦

My immoral generation is foolish.
 
The consent issue is a real one. And their argument is inconsistent, if not illogical. On one hand, they bleat about “the poor children”, and on the other, they liken children to adults. NAMBLA was part and parcel with the homosexual community until society started taking them seriously. Give it a few years, unless society says “enough!”
 
And we are the major funders of this corrupt organization. What a cesspool.
 
Bad as it is, maybe some good can come of this trend if they ultimately recognize the sexual rights of children from the moment of conception. :rolleyes:
 
I notice that they talk about changing society to be more favorable to this policy. In other words, that means getting rid of us: the pro-life community, and anyone else who disagrees with them. Out goes democracy and in comes social programming!
 
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