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Inside the UN’s censorious underbelly

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Whether the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sadly withdrew her nomination for the post last week, or another qualified individual, the message from the Trump administration has already been made clear to bureaucrats at the global body that the United States will not be going along with radical abortion and gender ideologies that have driven its agenda in recent years. 

At the beginning of its annual two-week conference on the Commission on the Status of Women earlier this month, the U.S. and Argentina objected to a political declaration that referenced “gender” but did not specify “women and girls.”   

The document also contained language about “intersecting forms of discrimination,” which often refers to gender identity and sexual orientation. Surprisingly, the declaration left out references to sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights, and sexuality education, shocking the International Planned Parenthood Federation and causing outrage from the pro-abortion group Women Deliver. Women Deliver said these references were “sacrificed in a last-minute political bargain” that was “indefensible.”

These radical feminists booed when U.S. and Argentinian diplomats refused to sign on. During the Biden administration,........

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