The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) — a body that currently includes such paragons of human rights as China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Venezuela — is set to hear a report on Wednesday that prioritizes abortion and treatments for so-called transgender individuals over things such as hospital access and lack of medications in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UNHRC is set to meet from June 23 until July 13 in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the organization, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health for the UNHRC Tlaleng Mofokeng of South Africa is set to deliver a report that will “shed light on the current status/level of realization of the right to sexual and reproductive health and the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of related services, during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Among Dr. Mofokeng’s credentials are her focuses “on gender equality, policy, maternal and neonatal health, universal health access, post violence care, menstrual health, and HIV management.”
Dr. Mofokeng also boasts being on the boards of the Safe Abortion Action Fund — an organization formed in 2006 specifically to target the United States’ so-called global gag rule prohibiting abortion funding for NGOs outside of the United States — and the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health and Wellbeing, Accountability International. Both groups have close ties to the International Planned Parenthood Foundation and are pro-abortion in the extreme.
In addition, the doctor is also the chair of the Soul City Institute for Social Justice, which refers to itself as “an intersectional feminist organization” whose “mission is to ensure that young womxn and girls enjoy substantive equality, with access to resources and opportunities that enable this.”
Dr. Mofokeng may indeed be a practicing physician, but her main focus seems to be activism for far-left heath-related causes such as abortion-on-demand and transgender issues.
Her report is entitled, “The right to sexual and reproductive health — Challenges and Possibilities during COVID-19.”
As the special rapporteur on the right to health for the UNHRC, shouldn’t Dr. Mofokeng’s focus be a little more broad than these specific areas? In a world which, according to the World Health Organization, five children die every minute in developing countries due to malaria and diarrhea because of the lack of clean drinking water, are abortion-on-demand and access to transgender treatment really that high on the priority list?
Human Rights Watch, an international NGO that focuses on alleged human rights abuses globally, foreshadowed Dr. Mofokeng’s talking points with its own report to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
COVID-19, they complained, closed down many abortion mills instead of allowing unfettered access to those baby-killing centers.
“Many governments closed facilities providing sexual and reproductive health care or restricted access to certain services during the pandemic,” Human Rights Watch declared in their report to the special rapporteur. “The International Planned Parenthood Federation, a global nongovernmental organization (NGO) that promotes sexual and reproductive health, reported that the pandemic forced the organization to close thousands of family planning facilities, either due to government orders or social distancing needs.”
And COVID-19 school closings meant that many transgender kids had to stay at home instead of going to school where their lifestyle choice was more accepted than at home.
“School closures meant removal from a school environment where they felt free to express their identity and receive support from teachers, counselors, or peers, and confinement at home with family members with whom they felt comparatively constrained,” Human Rights Watch complained.
This coming report only serves to further exemplify the UNHRC’s utter worthlessness in dealing with — or even addressing — the actual human-rights issues of the world. Viewed through the UNHRC’s lens, issues such as abortion-on-demand and transgender treatments are more important in the world of COVID-19 than are things such as clean drinking water and improved sanitation.
It’s past time for the Untied States to get out of the United Nations and stop funding such nonsense.
