Virginia Right!

www.parentalrights.org reported and The Hill confirms that there was first a sneaky attempt to pass the sovereignty-killing, unnecessary, dangerous (especially to parental rights and homeschoolers) Convention to Protect the Rights of the Disabled (CPRD) stopped by Utah Senator Mike Lee and then the wonderful “round robin” letter Lee then produced, signed by enough Senators to [...]

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Tea Party Nation reported that three Republican Senators voted for the Convention for the Rights of Disabled Persons: We need to take action. Call the 3 senators who voted for the CRPD treaty and tell them to oppose the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Treaty. Senator Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) (202) 224-4814 Senator [...]

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I like this posting from the Home School Legal Defense Association on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Please give these senators some or all of the following message: I urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected [...]

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Parentalrights.org reported it to the email I get (with 48,000,000 other people!) on good news on the latest UN Treaty, the Convention of the Rights of Disabled Persons: CRPD: Stopping the Runaway Train After the hearing, several of our staff stayed in D.C. to visit once again the offices of the members of the Senate [...]

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I was pleased (thanks to parentalrights.org) to report that former PA Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has expressed his opposition to the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Disabled: Rick and Karen Santorum said: “The ultimate responsibility of all parents is to care for your child, a responsibility that only takes on added [...]

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The Senate is considering what seems on its face like a non-controversial UN treaty:  the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it is controversial or it ought to be!  I have blogged on this before.  (Remember Sandy’s rule on UN Treaties:  Bad UN law is repetitious!) But as Heritage Foundation testified today [...]

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Parentalrights.org has made a great argument as to why we should not ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).  I have largely incorporated it here at this blog post: But there is another treaty that has some of the fears that the UNCRC has (and which is generally shared with other [...]

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Seems this is a season for United Nations treaties.  We have the usual two:  CEDAW and the UN Child Treaty.  Not too much on CEDAW but this report that the CEDAW committee criticized Brazil for not pushing abortion and also that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is reported to call for “reproductive rights [...]

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