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Parental Rights Under the
Jurisdiction of the International Community?
Parental Rights Under the Jurisdiction of the International
Community?
DeMint is lead sponsor of S. Res. 519, a resolution to protect parental rights, which is co-sponsored by 30 senators total. Only four more senators need to sign on to inform President Obama that he does not have enough votes in the Senate to ratify the treaty, DeMint said. DeMint has also introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitutional amendment to protect parental rights.
The U.N. adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Nov. 20, 1989. By Sept. 2, 1990, 20 nations signed on to enforce the treaty. Currently, with the exception of the United States and Somalia, 193 nations have signed on to enforce it. Nations that ratify U.N. treaties are bound to adhere to them by international law. The convention established an 18-member panel to oversee children’s rights in nations that are part of the treaty. If approved by the Senate, the United States would fall under the jurisdiction of this panel.
DeMint said the threat to parental rights is “not some theoretical threat.” He also said that ratification of the treaty would be “a terrible precedent” not just for parental rights, “but in other areas that we’ve looked at.” DeMint also said that the treaty is superfluous because there are laws already that safeguard abused children in the United States. Asked by a reporter how to hold child abusers accountable, given high levels of child abuse in the U.S., according to statistics, DeMint said that the social services system may not be perfect, but that it is at least under U.S. control. “The fact that there’s not perfection in our system does not mean that we go to the United Nations for help,” he added.
DeMint said there is a “pervasive attitude” in Washington at present that the federal government has “complete control over everything.” The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, he said, is government intrusion to the last degree. “If the government or even the international community, tell you how to raise your children here in America, is there anything that’s off limits?” DeMint asked.
"Call your Senators and urge them to co-sponsor SR 519, a resolution in the US Senate that opposes ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. While 67 'yea' votes are needed for ratification, only 34 co-sponsors on this bill are needed to effectively kill any hopes of ratification. We only need THREE more. DO NOT procrastinate; the hearts, minds and souls of our children are in harm’s way if we do not act quickly and decisively."
Editor's Notes: To learn more on this very important issues you can visit www.parentalrights.org or www.parentalrightstn.blogspot.com.
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Man Tries to Donate Organs - Now
"I have a death sentence. It is just a matter of time," he said. "I know people are waiting on organs. If I am going to die, why not - while my organs are still viable - go ahead and save five to 10 people." "I feel it is the right thing to do. There is a lack of organs. I don't feel like it is suicide," he said. "I am trying to give other people a chance." But there is a major roadblock for Phebus.
Federal law requires an individual pass away from brain death or cardiac death before becoming an organ donor, said Kaysha Cranon, public affairs coordinator for LifeLink of Georgia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recovery of organs and tissue for transplant. "I think it is wonderful that he wants to donate his organs," she added, noting there are more than 108,000 people on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. Phebus said he wants to see a law passed that would allow someone in his position to donate organs while still alive.
"It is very complicated," he said. "Something like that is certainly not a natural death. I really doubt if the General Assembly would consider something like that." State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) said he would be willing to hear more about the case, but noted his opposition to physician-assisted suicide may prevent him from lending his support. "In a way, it would be doctor-assisted suicide," he said. "If it, in fact, involves physician-assisted suicide, I could not support it." Phebus said he not only wants to give the organs while they're viable, but also avoid years of medical bills and insurance claims. "I'm dead anyway," he said. "I want to live, but I don't see any way out
"Nothing could be more dangerous to disabled and despairing people than to give them a stake in their deaths rather than their lives. And before anyone says how could I understand what it’s like when I don’t have ALS: My last hospice patient (I used to be a volunteer) died of ALS. He told me that for 2 1/2 years he wanted to go to Kevorkian. But then, he said, 'I came out of the fog and was so glad to be alive.' Believe me, had he been able to have assisted suicide–and especially if it could have been grasped in his desperation as a way to repair his (then) broken self-esteem by donating organs–during that dark time, I have no doubt about what he would have done. But had he been made dead (and harvested)–he would have missed what he called the best time of his life, a time when as a total quadriplegic, he collected art on the Internet, watched his children grow and made money for his family doing on line investing.
"I sure hope that Kaysha Cranon was responding to Phebus’s general desire to donate organs rather than applauding his specific request to be killed so he could do it now. (Her quote could be construed either way.) Otherwise, she should be fired. If you have organ donation organizations applauding euthanasia and harvesting, it will destroy faith in the organ donation system. At the very least, a clarification is in order from LifeLink.
"The Belgians have already tied euthanasia to organ harvesting, so this already isn’t one of those 'it could never happen' stories. Nothing could be more dangerous than giving society a stake in ill, disabled and despairing people being made dead.
"I hope Phebus receives help to overcome his current state of mind, as Bob did, so that he can live life to the fullest in the time he has left. But even if he never does, he can’t be allowed his way on this. There’s far more at stake than his life and desires, for allowing people to be killed for their organs would be yet another way of turning human beings into mere natural resources ripe for the harvest."
References 1. Parental Rights Under the Jurisdiction of the International Community? "Sen. DeMint: Ratifying U.N. Children’s Rights Treaty Would Turn Parental Rights ‘Over to International Community’". CNS News. August 6, 2010 2. Man Tries to Donate Organs - Now "Man Tries to Donate Organs - Now". Cherokee Tribune. July 25, 2010 |
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