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SAN JOSE ARTICLES

The Aim

The purpose of the San Jose Articles is to provide expert testimony that no such

right exists. The San Jose Articles were prepared by a group of 31 experts ininternational law, international relations, international organizations, public health,

science/medicine and government. The signers include law professors,philosophers, Parliamentarians, Ambassadors, human rights lawyers, and delegates

to the UN General Assembly.

The purpose of the San Jose Articles is also to demonstrate that the unborn child isalready protected in human rights instruments and that governments should begin

protecting the unborn child by using international law."

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"Article 1. As a matter of scientific fact a new human life begins at conception.

"Article 2. Each human life is a continuum that begins at conception and advancesin stages until death. Science gives different names to these stages, including

zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus, infant, child, adolescent and adult. This does notchange the scientific consensus that at all points of development each individual is a

living member of the human species.

"Article 3. From conception each unborn child is by nature a human being.

"Article 4. All human beings, as members of the human family, are entitled to

recognition of their inherent dignity and to protection of their inalienable humanrights. This is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international

instruments.

"Article 5. There exists no right to abortion under international law, either by way oftreaty obligation or under customary international law. No United Nations treaty can

accurately be cited as establishing or recognizing a right to abortion.

"Article 6. The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination AgainstWomen (CEDAW Committee) and other treaty monitoring bodies have directedgovernments to change their laws on abortion. These bodies have explicitly or

implicitly interpreted the treaties to which they are subject as including a right toabortion.

"Article 7. Assertions by international agencies or non-governmental actors thatabortion is a human right are false and should be rejected.

"Article 8. Under basic principles of treaty interpretation in international law,consistent with the obligations of good faith and pacta sunt servanda, and in the

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exercise of their responsibility to defend the lives of their people, states may andshould invoke treaty provisions guaranteeing the right to life as encompassing a

state responsibility to protect the unborn child from abortion.

"Article 9. Governments and members of society should ensure that national lawsand policies protect the human right to life from conception. They should also reject

and condemn pressure to adopt laws that legalize or depenalize abortion."

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012

The San Jose Articles: the United Nations' abortion lies exposed

Canadians should support MP Jeff Watson's call for Parliament to re-openthe debate onabortion. We need to educate ourselves about the truth. For too long

now, most people in Canada and the international community have come to believethat theres a "fundamental human right" to abortion. This is totally false. Yes, youread that correctly. In Canada, we currently have no law on abortion, and no UnitedNations treaty makes abortion an international right. However, many nations havebeen pressured by the UN, as it recently happened in Colombia, to change their lawsbecause of this false assumption. Its time nations push back this culture of death.We need to unmask the lies. The San Jose Articles are designed to help countriesdo just that.

The United Nations has no legal and no moral authority into forcing membercountries to accept abortion as a "legal right". They have been advocating a lie as ifit were a truth. This evil effort has served to promote abortion internationally and tocontinue to deceive and intimidate those countries that are currently pro-life. TheSan Jose Articles provide a legal defence to combat the anti-life propaganda andexpose the lies. Let's hope that all counties begin to use them to bring an end toabortion and the deceptive means by which the pro-abortionists at the UN spread theculture of death.

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