Okay, maybe it is time to move

Happily, I only have a few more reproductive years left in me.

The opening of the UN's session to reaffirm the Beijing Declaration has been dominated by the US's insistence "that any new declaration did not create "the right to abortion."

According to the BBC:

The 150-page Beijing declaration called for governments to end gender discrimination in areas including education, health care, politics and employment.

It stated that women have the right to "decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality... free of coercion, discrimination and violence."

But attempts at the time to refer to abortion as a sexual right were dropped amid heated debate, and instead it was treated as a public health issue.

However, the Beijing conference's action plan did call for governments not to punish women who have undergone illegal abortions.

My cursory search fails to reveal any other news on the topic, so I'm not entirely clear just how exactly the US is being obstructionist beyond the info in the BBC story. Regardless, it's nice to know we live in a country garnering an increasing reputation for throwing Puritanical spanners in the international accord works.

In other abortion news, the Supreme Court refused to hear Norma McCorvey/Jane Roe's appeal last week. Thank fucking god.