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Originally posted by steggyD
Yeah, I dont' get it still. If there was a change in the amendment, show me. Show me the original amendment and then what it was changed to. I can't seem to find any link.
Originally posted by Kidfinger
Skibum. Im not going to argue with you anymore. If you want to continue to tell me that my opinion is wrong, then present proof of such. I gave a link in my first post. It states clearly what went on and gives other supporting info. You do not wish to hear what I have to say, instead, you wish for me to say what you want me to say. I have answered every repeated question neumorous times and yet my answers still dont satisfy you. This is becomeing an exercise in wasted time. Our discussion is over. I do welcome other input from other people who will not attempt to portray my words in a false light.
Originally posted by Skibum
Thank you I accept your admitance of defeat.
from www.newsalerts.com...:top4:9319
After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. document, the United States joined in approving the declaration that reaffirmed a 150-page platform agreed 10 years ago at a landmark U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
If you want to continue to tell me that my opinion is wrong, then present proof of such.
Glad to see you still have presented no proof of your views, only biased opinion.................
Originally posted by steggyD
from www.newsalerts.com...:top4:9319
After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. document, the United States joined in approving the declaration that reaffirmed a 150-page platform agreed 10 years ago at a landmark U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
This is the link you provided. Notice the first two words in the paragraph.
Earlier Friday, Sauerbrey said the United States was dropping its demand that the document be amended to say that abortion is a matter of national sovereignty and not a human right delineated by the 1995 conference in Beijing.
The first version of the abandoned amendment said the Beijing meeting's final document did not recognize abortion as a fundamental right; a later version said the document did not create any new international human rights, code for abortion.
Tell me this if as you say the amendment was changed, and you say it had to be voted on to change it, yet there was no vote on the amendment, How exactly was the amendment changed?
Originally posted by steggyD
If you read this correctly, they are wanting countries to decide for themselves and not have this international document saying that abortion is a right to all women in the world. Seems that your original story has backfired and that the US wants other countries to decide their own morals and not some pact made in Beijing. Admit it, come on, you're wrong.
After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. document, the United States joined in approving the declaration that reaffirmed a 150-page platform agreed 10 years ago at a landmark U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
skibum. please go bug someone else.
Originally posted by Kidfinger
Originally posted by steggyD
If you read this correctly, they are wanting countries to decide for themselves and not have this international document saying that abortion is a right to all women in the world. Seems that your original story has backfired and that the US wants other countries to decide their own morals and not some pact made in Beijing. Admit it, come on, you're wrong.
Oh, Im wrong? If you read this correctly.................:
After withdrawing an unpopular anti-abortion amendment from a key U.N. document, the United States joined in approving the declaration that reaffirmed a 150-page platform agreed 10 years ago at a landmark U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
You would see that the Bush administration has attempted to change the original document with an UNPOPULAR AMMENDMANT that was universally rejected.
skibum. please go bug someone else.
The content of the amendment does not matter. This is not what i am debating here. It is the fact that the amendment was an attempt to establish the Bush administrations ethical views on countries that dont want them.
Originally posted by steggyD
Have you read what the amendment was, or do you ignore that part. That's what we are trying to say.
The amendment does not force people to oppose abortion, it gives country the rights to choose for themselves. The US was only trying to amend a 10 year old paper so that it does not make abortion an international woman's right. Read the whole story, please. So, in conclusion, once more, the USA was not trying to force ethics on other countries. The USA was trying to allow other countries to decide their own ethics. Please understand this part, because I am finished with this thread.
BTW, off topic, Kid, Louisville or UK fan? I'm an original Kentuckian. I have a friend in Louisville, but I lived in Lexington last.