A United Nations treaty working its way through the U.S. Senate reveals a hidden agenda that could be dangerous to children in the womb.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was conceived to benefit people with disabilities worldwide. Susan Yoshihara of Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) says the way it was negotiated resulted in troublesome wording.
"[It was] including language that can be used to promote abortion on demand, and in particular, to promote abortion of disabled people," says Yoshihara.
The spokeswoman says when the treaty was negotiated in the last round six years ago, many people worked hard to make sure there was no language that would specifically promote the homosexual agenda.
"They got a lot of bad language out. However, it doesn't matter what these treaties say these days," Yoshihara recalls.
"It seems that the committees that interpret them will promote whatever agenda they want to promote despite what the nations who negotiated them meant to say when they put the words on paper, and so that's another reason that we're cautioning folks in Washington against ratifying the treaty."
The treaty has been voted out of committee to the full Senate, and if passed even during a lame duck session, it would become the law of the land. It takes a two-thirds vote to ratify, and C-FAM is concerned there might be enough votes to accomplish it.