Trump admin launches "unprecedented" pro-life effort at UN to fight pro-abortion EU

The U.S. Government has reached out to foreign capitals to request support for U.S. pro-life efforts at the United Nations. Such a high-level pro-life effort by a U.S. administration is unprecedented. A joint letter signed by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary Alex Azar of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was sent last month to ask governments to support U.S. pro-life efforts at the United Nations in the lead up to a global health summit this September. UN delegates have been looking for such a letter for more than a year because it makes official the U.S. pro-life stance and will help them in standing up to abortion forces in the UN bureaucracy and the European governments. The letter warns against "aggressive efforts to reinterpret international instruments to create a new international right to abortion and to promote international policies that weaken the family." Pompeo and Azar said these efforts were "disturbing" and that they "take the focus off real health issues and import policy debates that should be handled at the national, sub-national, or community level." Their letter also referred to the terms "sexual and reproductive health" and "comprehensive sexuality education" as "ambiguous terms and expressions that cause confusion and have become associated with anti-family and pro-abortion policies." The European Union rejected the final draft of a UN agreement on global health earlier this month because it does not allow the UN to promote abortion as an international right.