AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Edith M. Lederer,
Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 58 mins ago

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had done to implement the landmark platform of action adopted at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing was consumed by the Bush administration's demand that the final declaration make clear that women are not guaranteed a right to abortion.

By contrast, abortion was a non-issue during the two-week session that concluded Friday with a rousing speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had electrified the 1995 Beijing conference when she was first lady.

UN: 100,000,000 women missing in Asia

From Suzy B.

The ignorance and hypocrisy of the UN is appalling. When will they wake up to the fact that abortion destroys lives and societies, causing many of the problems they try to fight?

This report calls  for “strict actions against sex-selective abortions and  calls for health professionals and the media to “act as watchdogs and influencers of attitudes” in countries where sex-selective abortions are illegal but the law is not effectively implemented. It also recommends that governments offer “incentives for girl children”.

sex-selective abortions in developing countries in Asia. 

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