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United Nations urges more abortion.(Insider Report)

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The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Poland to "liberalize its legislation and practice on abortion" in its periodic review of compliance with the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The UN committee based its recommendations on the work of radical feminist and pro-abortion groups led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Polish Federation on Women and Family Planning. Yet the ICCPR not only doesn't mention abortion, it states: "Every human being has the inherent right to life."

The New York-based Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute quoted Poland's Ewa Kowalewski, an opponent of the taking of innocent life in the womb and the director of Human Life International Europe: "A committee of the UN said that abortion is a human right according to international ...

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