Europeans Run from Abortion Fight at UN - C-Fam

UNITED NATIONS, December 12 (C-Fam) The Ambassador of Sweden withdrew a UN resolution on humanitarian assistance Wednesday in order to prevent a vote on pro-life amendments proposed by the Trump administration, a vote pro-abortion Europeans seemed slated to lose.
The strategic withdrawal at the eleventh hour shows just how much Europeans fear Trump’s pro-life policies. Just before she pulled the resolution from consideration, the Swedish ambassador said voting on these amendments would be “unfair” to the mostly European delegations that had negotiated the resolution behind closed doors.
This calculous suggests that ending UN promotion of abortion and LGBT rights is a popular cause and that the Trump administration has a clear path to a historic pro-life victory in the General Assembly.
The amendments presented by the U.S. government expressly ruled out abortion as a right and required the UN system to provide the best possible maternal health in humanitarian emergencies to “eliminate …