{"id":1010710,"date":"2023-03-02T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un"},"modified":"2023-03-02T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:01:00","slug":"un-urged-to-intervene-over-destruction-of-us-abortion-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/02\/un-urged-to-intervene-over-destruction-of-us-abortion-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"UN urged to intervene over destruction of US abortion rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US\u2019s obligations as a UN member state<\/p><p>Top human rights organizations are calling on the United Nations to intervene over the destruction of abortion rights in the US.<\/p><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaljusticecenter.net\/files\/UNSpecialProceduresLetter_USAbortionRights.pdf\">letter<\/a> shared in advance with the Guardian and sent Thursday by nearly 200 organizations and experts, the authors detail how, since the overturning of the federal constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, some 22 million women and girls of reproductive age live in states where abortion access is now either banned or inaccessible.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/02\/destruction-us-abortion-laws-human-rights-violation-un\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US\u2019s obligations as a UN member stateTop human rights organizations are calling on the United Nations to intervene over the destruction of abortion rights &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[913,6,44475,111,1315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011988,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010710\/revisions\/1011988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}