Respect the human rights of unborn

The UN Human Rights Committee’s criticism of Ireland’s abortion law is ideologically contaminated reinterpretation of solemn treaty obligations to "provide appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth’ to every child "without exception".

True justice requires that elective abortions be recognised and treated not as idiosyncratic, personal ‘choices’ but as abusive practices, as human rights violations perpetrated by individuals and involving the complicity of politicians, judges and others.

Right from the first drafting of the international human rights instruments, the legal language of human rights included repeatedly and consistently the terms ‘unborn children’ and ‘the child before as well as after birth’.