An UNconventional Approach to Abortion, Parents' Rights
Judging by the ObamaCare
mess, Congress has enough to worry about without adding U.S. sovereignty
to the mix. But in the Senate, where inefficiency is an art form,
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is choosing to waste more of the
chamber's time on an international treaty that could be one of the
greatest threats to parents' rights that no one knows about.
Like most U.N. treaties,
this one sounds harmless enough. But behind its innocuous name,
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), is
dangerous language that cedes parental authority, expands abortion
"rights," and chips away at U.S. sovereignty. Democrats say the U.S.
should ratify the treaty to encourage other countries to "catch up" to
our standards of treating everyone fairly, regardless of their
handicaps. But America can be an example to the rest of the world
without signing away our rights. After two decades of living under the
strongest piece of disabilities legislation in the world, we don't have
anything to prove. Nothing the United Nations ratifies -- including CRPD
-- could compare with the Americans with Disabilities Act in providing
protection for people with special needs. So why bother?
Because, as Senator Harry
Reid well knows, U.N. measures like this one help get his party's
radical policies through America's backdoor. Under CRPD, the U.S. would
be forced to recognize so-called rights that even our Constitution does
not. What's more, those "rights" would be subject to U.S. courts
interpretation -- or worse, unelected bureaucrats'. And, of course, it
wouldn't be a U.N. proposal if it didn't include a loophole to greater
abortion access.