| Sanctity of Life
This information has been provided by Brother Michael Pierce, President of the Hunterdon County Right to Life
February 14, 2007
Dear Fighter for the Unborn,
If you are going to help fight CEDAW, you must act now. CEDAW is the UN treaty that is being used by radicals to change laws on abortion around the world. It was just used in Colombia to overturn some of their abortion laws. This dangerous treaty is coming to the US thanks to pro-abortion Senators in the US Senate. We need your help and we need it now and there is only one more week to sign the petition.
I urge you to go to www.c-fam.org sign the petition and then send this information to all of your friends and family. Here is more information about CEDAW….
CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) is touted by supporters as the International Women's Rights Treaty. The treaty itself is full of nice sounding language about women's equality, something we are all for. But the implementing committee of the treaty, a body that governments must appear before every few years, is as radical as you can get. Here are a few examples of their work.
• The treaty condemns prostitution but the committee has directed governments to legalize prostitution.
• The CEDAW committee has directed 37 pro-life governments to change their laws on abortion, even though the treaty is SILENT on abortion.
• The CEDAW committee has criticized Ireland for allowing the Church to have too strong a voice on public policy.
• The committee has directed Lybia to reinterpret the Koran to fall within committee guidelines (how long before they try that on Christian countries)
The outrages of this out of control committee go on and on and on. Just this past week we watched them berate pro-life Poland on the question of abortion (I repeat, even though the treaty is SILENT on abortion).
Dozens of countries have ratified CEDAW but so far the US has resisted. The US must continue to resist because as long as it does, it remains a beacon of hope for all those who are resisting this dangerous treaty. The US must not ratify CEDAW. So I turn to you.
I ask you to go to www.c-fam.org and sign our petition to the US Senate not to ratify CEDAW. All Americans with a conscience should sign this petition, but all people of goodwill around the globe should also. The US is ever more sensitive these days about what people around the world think. The radicals will be telling the Senate that there is overwhelming support for CEDAW around the world. We must let them know that this is not true.
I urge you to go immediately to www.c-fam.org and sign the petition against US ratification of CEDAW. We will deliver this petition with thousands of signatures directly to the US Senate. Go to www.c-fam.org now and sign. And then send this message to all of your friends. We must get thousands and thousands from all over the world to sign this petition.
Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse
President, C-FAM |
