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ACTION REQUEST Urge Your Senators to Reject the Pro-Abortion CEDAW Treaty!(Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women )(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON (Sept. 3, 2002) -- The U.S. Senate may vote in September or October on a treaty to ban broadly defined "discrimination" against women -- a treaty that has been interpreted to condemn any limitations on abortion.
On July 30, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 12 to 7 to recommend that the full Senate ratify a treaty called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (pronounced "SEE-daw").
The full Senate could vote on the treaty at any time. Democrats currently hold majority control in the Senate by a single seat, 51-49. Nearly all of the chamber's Democrats have endorsed the CEDAW. However, many Republican senators (and a few Democrats) have never taken a position on it.
It would require a two-thirds vote to ratify the CEDAW treaty, or 67 senators (if every senator votes). According to the New York Times (July 31), "Treaty supporters said their initial vote counts indicated that they were still at least 3 votes shy of 67. Some Democrats said that if ratification was not assured, they would not want to bring the treaty to the floor this fall."
NRLC strongly opposes ratification of CEDAW because it has been construed by UN agencies, by the European Parliament, and by pro-abortion litigators in the United States to be inconsistent with any limitations on abortion.
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