Help Needed Right Now to Block CEDAW

Received from C-Fam:

Pro-abortion Democrats are poised to push a radical UN treaty onto the Senate floor for ratification. If you are American you should be gravely concerned for it will be used to uphold abortion in the United States. Even if you live elsewhere you should be extremely concerned if the US Senate ratifies this treaty which has been used by radicals to force governments to legalize abortion on demand.

CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) is touted by supporters as the International Women's Rights Treaty. The treaty itself is full of nice sounding language about women's equality, something we are all for. But the implementing committee of the treaty, a body that governments must appear before every few years, is as radical as you can get. Here are a few examples of their work.

• The treaty condemns prostitution but the committee has directed governments to legalize prostitution.
• The CEDAW committee has directed 37 pro-life governments to change their laws on abortion, even though the treaty is SILENT on abortion,
• The CEDAW committee has criticized Ireland for allowing the Church to have too strong a voice on public policy.
• The committee has directed Lybia to reinterpret the Koran to fall within committee guidelines (how long before they try that on Christian countries).

The outrages of this out of control committee go on and on and on. Just this past week we watched them berate pro-life Poland on the question of abortion (I repeat, even though the treaty is SILENT on abortion).

Dozens of countries have ratified CEDAW but so far the US has resisted. The US must continue to resist because as long as it does, it remains a beacon of hope for all those who are resisting this dangerous treaty. The US must not ratify CEDAW. So I turn to you.

I ask you to go to HERE and sign our petition to the US Senate not to ratify CEDAW. All Americans with a conscience should sign this petition, but all people of goodwill around the globe should also. The US is ever more sensitive these days about what people around the world think. The radicals will be telling the Senate that there is overwhelming support for CEDAW around the world. We must let them know that this is not true.

I urge you to go immediately HERE and sign the petition against US ratification if CEDAW. We will deliver this petition with thousands of signatures directly to the US Senate. Go HERE now and sign. And then send this message to all of your friends. We must get thousands and thousands from all over the world to sign this petition.

Yours sincerely,

Austin Ruse
President, C-FAM

PS Last summer your signature on our World Cup prostitution petition got global attention. You can make a real difference today by going HERE and signing our petition against CEDAW.