The Geneva
Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family became a United Nations global proclamation in 2020. Designed to safeguard
values protecting women’s health the declaration states that its objective is “to uphold the right to the
highest attainable standards of health for women; to promote women’s essential
contribution to health, and strength of the family and of a successful and
flourishing society; and to express the essential priority of protecting the
right to life.”
In 2020, 35 member nations representing 1.6 billion people
committed to the GCD to “advance the health of women, protect the family as
foundational to any healthy society, affirm the value of life in all stages of
development, and uphold the sovereign right of nations to make their own laws
on abortion or the preservation of life.”
On January 28, 2021, however, President
Biden removed the United States from the Geneva
Consensus Declaration (GCD), parting ways and policies with a tremendous
host of nations around the world that protect life and the health of women. Even
without the United States, the 34 GCD signatories will represent 1.3 billion
people from every region of the world. These nations stand on the world stage affirming the fact
that there is no “international right to abortion.” These facts expose that the United States is out of step with the rest of the world on the issue of life. In fact, U.S. abortion laws are among the most permissive in the world, matched only by China, North Korea, and Canada.
The GCD remains in effect even as the United States removes itself as a signatory. The bottom line is that by leaving the GCD the United States is proclaiming our nation is a pariah for the values of life and women’s health, choosing instead abortion as its idol, a move that can only destroy families.
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