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United Nations Human Rights Committee Wants to Make Abortion a “Universal Human Rightâ€International Grace Carr Nov 15, 2018 | 3:16PM Washington, DCThe United Nations Human Rights Committee drafted a memo saying that abortion and physician-assisted suicide should be universal human rights.The memo, or “general comment†on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, calls for abortion to be decriminalized everywhere. Nations and states should “not introduce new barriers and should remove existing barriers [to abortion] … including barriers caused as a result of the exercise of conscientious objection by individual medical providers,†it said, Crux Now reported Thursday.The committee that put forward the draft is headed by former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, according to Crux. Aborting an unborn baby was illegal in Chile until August 2017 when the nation’s lawmakers ruled to decriminalize abortion in the cases of rape, fatal fetal abnormalities and when the mother’s life is in danger.Read more at: https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/15/united-nations-human-rights-committee-wants-to-make-abortion-a-universal-human-right/