https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/us-un-resolution-rape-weapon-of-war-vetoSpeaking of horse's asses and amoral hypocrites, I offer you the United States and the Trump administration. Again.
US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials sayExclusive: US warns it will reject measure over language on sexual health in latest example of hardline abortion stanceBut the draft resolution has already been stripped of one of its most important elements, the establishment of a formal mechanism to monitor and report atrocities, because of opposition from the US, Russia and China, which opposed creating a new monitoring body.
Even after the formal monitoring mechanism was stripped from the resolution, the US was still threatening to veto the watered-down version, because it includes language on victims’ support from family planning clinics. In recent months, the Trump administration has taken a hard line, refusing to agree to any UN documents that refer to sexual or reproductive health, on grounds that such language implies support for abortions. It has also opposed the use of the word “gender”, seeking it as a cover for liberal promotion of transgender rights.
They mean "seeing it as cover" in the last line.
But I
love that the US has joined Russia and China to block monitoring of atrocities. It's not just that the US doesn't want a new monitoring agency, but that they won't let the monitoring agencies that already exist do their job.
We live in a rogue nation, folks, that prefers to let rapists get away rather than risk that a raped woman might get an abortion or that a United States soldier who rapes somebody get caught by and tried by an international body, rather than getting away with it in the good old U. S. of A.
It makes me sick.
And that there are so many who thinks this is a good policy makes me sicker.
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