US rejects UN rights panel upholding access to abortions during pandemic | Malay Mail

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GENEVA, Aug 26 — The United States today hit back at a UN women’s rights panel that said some US states limited access to abortions during the Covid-19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of “an assumed right to abortion”. “The United States is disappointed by and...

Wednesday, 26 Aug 2020 04:45 PM MYT

“The United States is disappointed by and categorically rejects this transparent attempt to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to assert the existence of such a right,” the US mission in Geneva said in a release posted on Twitter. The panel of five independent UN experts said that states including Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Iowa, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee had issued Covid-19 emergency orders suspending procedures not deemed immediately medically necessary to restrict access to abortion.

 

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