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U.S.: Abortion Is Not International Human Right

HeadlineMar 01, 2005

At the United Nations, the Bush administration insisted on Monday that the right to abortion should not be considered a fundamental human right. The administration made the assertion during a major gathering in New York of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Over 6,000 advocates of women’s rights are meeting in New York over the next two weeks to review progress of the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women.

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