Mar 3, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Contrary to what many media sources have been reporting, the U.S. has not backed down on what has been called a contentious proposal to the U.N. that a document on women’s equality does not support abortion as a “right.”
A spokesman for the U.S. delegation at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) told CNSNews that media reports were wrong and in truth, the group is still in deliberations and has not decided what to do.
The U.S. delegation had called for the drafting of a brief document to be included in the reiteration of a platform agreed upon at a Beijing women’s conference in 1995.
The addendum was to clarify that the platform did not include any new rights and did not include the “right to abortion."