CEDAW Pushes Radical Abortion Agenda on Costa Rica
Posted on | October 14, 2011 by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. |
Today the UN Journal listed a CEDAW Committe document, prepared in July, containing the Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued to Costa Rica following the country reporting under the the CEDAW treaty.
The Concluding observations contain this remark: “the Committee is concerned at the persistence of discriminatory traditional attitudes and the prevailing negative influence of some religious beliefs and cultural patterns in the State party that hamper the advancement of women’s rights and the full implementation of the Convention, in particular sexual and reproductive rights.”
Unsurprisingly, the Committee calls on Costa Rica to:
– liberalize its law on abortion
– lift its ban on in-vitro fertilization
– ensure access to the morning after pill
– introduce a comprehensive sexual education program for boys and girls
– launch a sensitivization campaign for the general public on gender identity
The Committee also told Costa Rica that its Constiution was inadequate. It said that “article 75 of the Constitution may have an impact on the persistence of traditional gender roles in the State party.” Article 75 provides that “The Roman Catholic and Apostolic Religion is the religion of the State, which contributes to its maintenance, without preventing the free exercise in the Republic of other forms of worship that are not opposed to universal morality or good customs.”
