Abortion as a “Human Right” Corrupts of International HR Agreements

Abortion as a “Human Right” a Corruption of International HR Agreements: John Smeaton: The push in recent years to establish abortion as an international “human right” flies in the face of international human rights law that springs from the natural law and the world’s response to the Nazi atrocities, John Smeaton, head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, told an international conference last week.

International agreements dating back to 1948, in the aftermath of the Nuremberg trials, repeatedly insist on the right to life of the unborn child, and specifically protect all human life from conception, he said.

Speaking Thursday at the international congress held by Human Life International in Rome, Smeaton said that the modern, secular perception of human rights derive directly from Judeo-Christian thought, the Natural Law philosophies and the concept of human beings made in the image and likeness of God. Cut these concepts of rights off from their divine origins, and “human rights become anti-human.”