'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,' climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. 'We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.'
US wants the UN to oppose terms such as "reproductive health and rights" in policiesU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar Alex Wong/Getty Images
“We do not support references to ambiguous terms and expressions, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights, in UN documents because they can undermine the critical role of the family and promote practices like abortion in circumstances that do not enjoy international consensus and which can be misinterpreted by UN agencies,” Azar said while standing next to health officials from Guatemala, Brazil, Iraq, Poland and Hungary.
The statement, suggesting a stance against abortion, was presented during a high-level meeting on universal health coverage. The meeting aims to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage for everyone around the world, which would include access to health care services, medicines and vaccines. The effort is part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, under which all countries have committed to try to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.
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