Perhaps the ultimate example of bureaucratic double-speak is developing at the United Nations, where officials are set to adopt a new definition of the “right to life.”
It apparently now will include a “right to abortion.”
The Human Rights Committee’s proposed revision regarding the right to life in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights says, “States must provide safe access to abortion.”
The European Center for Law and Justice, which has a presence at the U.N., has submitted a statement in opposition, charging the proposal is an “attempt to create a universal right to abortion.”