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Re: Blinken Reverses Trump Call to Ignore Global Reproductive Rights Abuses

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 31 Mar 21 5:47 PM | 14 view(s)
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By all means measure things, and provide useful services.

But Blinken's virtue-signalling. I don't think he has thought too hard about rights.

We make choices between them all the time. My so-called right to play my music loudly conflicts with your so-called right to peace and quiet. My property right depends on your willingness not to take a walk through my garden. My right to swim depends on you not dropping agricultural waste in the stream we share. My right to discriminate between cake buyers on grounds of religion conflicts with your wish to purchase a gaycake.

That's why rights-based models always result in arguments over competing claims. Claimants inevitably vie for supremacy.


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Blinken Reverses Trump Call to Ignore Global Reproductive Rights Abuses
By: clo2 in ALEA
Wed, 31 Mar 21 2:00 PM 		Msg. 41535 of 54959

Blinken Reverses Trump Call to Ignore Global Reproductive Rights Abuses

Every year, the U.S. State Department releases a survey of global human rights, but, since 2016, something has been missing from the report. That year, the Trump administration stopped reporting on the discrimination of women seeking sexual health services across the world.

But Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Tuesday that women’s access to contraceptives and reproductive care will be monitored by the United States government once again.

The 2020 report, which was released Tuesday, was completed during the Trump administration, but Blinken added a foreword to say that an addendum will be published later this year to include issues related to reproductive rights.

According to The New York Times, Blinken also announced that he had disbanded an advisory committee, set up by predecessor Mike Pompeo, to prioritize religious liberties over other freedoms.

Blinken commented: “There is no hierarchy that makes some rights more important than others.” 

Read it at The New York Times
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blinken-reverses-trump-call-to-ignore-global-reproductive-rights-abuses?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition

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