U.S. Pushes U.N. on Abortion Declaration

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U.S. Pushes U.N. on Abortion Declaration

Monday February 28, 2005 4:46 PM

By EDITH M. LEDERER

Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Ten years after the world's nations pledged to achieve equality for women, a follow-up meeting has become embroiled in controversy over a U.S. demand that its final declaration state that women are not guaranteed the right to abortion.

In informal consultations ahead of Monday's meeting to take stock of progress in implementing the landmark platform adopted at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing, the United States raised the abortion issue as a first order of business.

The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, which organized the high-level meeting, had hoped the two-week session would focus on overcoming the roadblocks to women's equality in 12 critical areas from health, education and employment to political participation and human rights.

But the dispute over abortion is likely to dominate the headlines and the closed-door debate on the final declaration.

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Not only do the Republicans want to control American women's bodies, now they want control ALL women's bodies. The Bu$h regime must be stopped. They don't care about the quality of women and children's lives they only care about fetuses.