US Signs Anti- Abortion Declaration With Group Of Largely Authoritarian Governments

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Source: The Guardian

The US has today signed an anti-abortion declaration with a group of about 30 largely illiberal or authoritarian governments, after the failure of an effort to expand the conservative coalition.

The "Geneva Consensus Declaration" calls on states to promote women's rights and health - but without access to abortion - and is part of a campaign by Trump administration, led by secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to reorient US foreign policy in a more socially conservative direction, even at the expense of alienating traditional western allies.

The "core supporters" of the declaration are Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia and Uganda, and the 27 other signatories include Belarus (where security forces are currently trying to suppress a women-led protest movement), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Sudan, South Sudan, Libya.

Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Peace and Security Index established by Georgetown University. None of the top twenty countries on the Georgetown index - with the exception of the US (ranked 19th) - has signed the declaration. The only other European signatory (apart from Belarus and Hungary) is Poland, where the constitutional court approved a near total ban on abortion on Thursday.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/us-trump-administration-signs-anti-abortion-declaration

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- Also, 'US reframing of human rights harms women and LGBT people, advocates say.' Pompeo’s focus on ‘unalienable rights’ legitimises authoritarian practices elsewhere, human rights groups warn. The Guardian, Sept. 17, 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/mike-pompeo-human-rights-women-lgbt-unalienable

[Lulu KC]

1. WTactualF????? n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. If Pompeo-tRump have to sign such a declaration, before the election is better than after: GOtV. .nt

[They_Live]

7. I just had literally

the same reaction.

[RKP5637]

3. F'er looks like such a damn gangster! n/t

[Lars39]

4. I always see him wearing overalls

[Harker]

5. Cynical abuse of "Geneva.". n/t

[musette_sf]

14. Yes

Standard RWNJ distraction tactic.

Like the "Susan B Anthony List" which is cynical RWNJ misogynists.

[Harker]

16. Positively Orwellian. n/t

[Bayard]

6. How embarrassing

trump has signed us up for the same exclusive club as Belarus and Saudi Arabia.

He is totally counting on his anti-women's rights queen to overturn Roe v Wade.

One more thing Joe will have to fix.

[riversedge]

8. ' Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Pea

and in the US. Trump begs women to vote for him!!


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Most of the signatories are among the 20 worst countries to be a woman according to the Women, Peace and Security Index established by Georgetown University.................

[Esperanto.Mark]

9. Its as though they sit around brainstorming on how to slow our species progress..

This is beyond entry level evil stuff.

[noneof_theabove]

10. how about a 180 on this

when you wife accuses you of trying to have sex when she "has a headache"
the judge sends you over to the clinic to have your balls cut off.

Oh, you don't like that?

The stay the hell of of people's personal life choices
be it religion, LGBTQ, abortion....it is not up to you.

For abortion there is a legal thing call party of the first party.
That would be the father, if know.
Then the doctor of the woman.

There is no such thing as second party of the first party, so F* OFF!

[lonely bird]

11. To call Pompeo a piece of shit

Is to insult shit.

[Politicub]

12. Now add in the retrograde ideas of the Supreme Court nominee they are pushing through

The GOP wants American women to be considered a class that is inferior to men.

This shit is infuriating.

[raccoon]

13. Is the US a shithole country yet? Nt

[musette_sf]

15. Member nations

of this vicious misogynistic cabal advocate corrective rape.

Of course.