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.