Petition to protect unborn

Next month will mark the 60th anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  In that 1948 document, the UN’s General Assembly recognized the dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as a foundation of justice and peace in the world.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls for the right to life, liberty and security of the person. But on Dec. 10, the anniversary of this proclamation, pro-abortion advocates plan to deliver a petition that would attempt to interpret the declaration so as to exclude the unborn.  Their hope is to have hundreds of thousands of signatures from around the world attached to that petition.

This year worldwide, approximately 42 million abortions are performed—nearly 115,000 a day—with more than 8 out of 10 happening in developing countries. 
In an effort to countermand the pro-abortion effort, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) is circulating an online petition which urges that the declaration be interpreted to include the unborn.

Founded in 1997, C-FAM monitors social policy at the United Nations. The organization is committed to protecting the dignity of the human person. Stressing that every human being has the right to life, from conception to natural death, the petition calls on all governments to interpret the 1948 document so that everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.

The petition can be found at c-fam.org.  People are being urged by the organization to not only affix their names to the petition, but to encourage others to do the same.