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Biden administration adds abortion access, gay rights to human rights list

March 31, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: Reversing policies set by the Trump administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US would now consider gay rights and reproductive rights in appraising the human-rights records of other countries. “Women’s rights, including sexual and reproductive rights, are human rights,” Blinken explained.

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  • Posted by: Randal Mandock - Apr. 01, 2021 5:19 PM ET USA

    "Gay rights" and "reproductive rights", as the anti-Catholic Biden and Pelosi see them, are _assaults on transcendent rights_, not acknowledgments of the free exercise of religion God created us to enjoy. St. Paul explained that in pagan cultures destructive of human freedom, the truth would be exchanged for a lie, and the good to which all consciences must be formed, would become a crime. "Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator".