‘No Int’l Right to Abortion’: US, Ten Other Countries Reject UN Summit Outcome The Trump administration on Thursday joined a handful of other governments at a U.N. population conference, reiterating that there is no “right†to abortion, and rejecting an outcome document which they said had not been sufficiently negotiated among governments or been the result of a consensus process.
The organizers of the “Nairobi Summit†hailed the three-day event as a success, “with partners making bold commitments to transform the world by ending all maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning and gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls by 2030.â€
But in a statement read out separately on behalf of the U.S. and ten other countries, Valerie Huber, the U.S. special representative for global women’s health, criticized the process.
Organized by the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) and the governments of Kenya and Denmark, the summit marked the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo...........
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