Trump’s Delegation Exposes the UN’s Radical Abortion Agenda

Last week at the United Nations, the American delegation did something no U.S. administration had ever done. It walked straight into the middle of the UN’s flagship humanitarian debate and said, in clear diplomatic language, that killing unborn children is not humanitarian work and never will be.

The General Assembly was considering its yearly resolution, “Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations.” For more than thirty years, this omnibus text sailed through by consensus.

The resolution itself doesn’t allocate funds. Spends no money. It feeds no one. It only serves as a political billboard that UN agencies and activists later wave around as proof of “evolving norms” on everything from migration to, especially, abortion dressed up as “sexual and reproductive health.

This year, the Trump administration refused to nod along. The U.S. delegation introduced a set of substantial, protective, pro-life amendments. The American representative called out the loaded “sexual and reproductive” language that abortion groups use as a Trojan horse and said, plainly, that it carries “highly controversial meanings” that do not belong in a humanitarian resolution.

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The U.S. text did not tweak a comma. It went straight for the heart of the lie.

With that move, the U.S. carried the spirit of the Geneva Consensus Declaration right into the UN’s humanitarian core. The Geneva coalition, now dozens of nations strong, affirms clearly that “there is no international right to abortion” and that women and children deserve genuine health care, not pressure to end the lives of their unborn children. The American amendments offered those countries a rare chance to vote for life in the open, not just in side events and off-the-record meetings.

This did not happen in a vacuum. At home, the Trump administration restored and expanded pro-life protections in foreign aid, reinstated and strengthened the Mexico City Policy, cut funding to international abortion giants, and defended conscience rights.

In the UN system, it blocked radical language at the Commission on the Status of Women and in other negotiations. It aligned the United States with a global pro-life coalition and made clear that American diplomacy would no longer serve as a delivery system for the abortion industry.

And then came the moment that exposed everything.

The European Union, with Sweden holding the pen on the resolution, could not stomach a fair fight. Sweden introduced the resolution, praised three decades of consensus, and politely asked the Americans to withdraw their amendments. The U.S. refused. It stood firm and formally submitted its four pro-life amendments, including the one that challenged the abortion-laden “sexual and reproductive health” language.

At that point, the EU had a simple choice. It could allow a vote, make its arguments, and prove that the world really stands behind its aggressive pro-abortion ideology. Or it could panic.

It panicked.

Rather than face a recorded vote that might confirm what everyone suspects, that the world does not accept abortion as a human right, Sweden withdrew the entire humanitarian omnibus resolution. No debate. No vote. No text. For the first time in UN history, there will be no annual humanitarian coordination resolution because the European Union chose to protect abortion profiteers instead.

Think about that.

The same EU that lectures the globe about “humanity” and “solidarity” would rather torch its own humanitarian showpiece than allow one clear paragraph stating that there is no international right to abortion. The unborn child is such a threat to their ideological comfort that they decided it is better to have no resolution at all than risk seeing that child recognized, even indirectly, as a member of the human family.

Now, pro-life nations must take a page from what the Americans did and stop treating bad language as inevitable. When “sexual and reproductive health” appears, move to strike it or define it. Present protective language that affirms there is no right to abortion. Demand votes. Invoke the Geneva Consensus Declaration and build voting blocs that stand up in public. Make the abortion lobby show its weakness instead of letting it hide behind vague wording and manufactured “consensus.”

Last week, the United States proved that one determined delegation can disrupt a decades-old pattern at the UN and expose the emptiness of the pro-abortion narrative. The humanitarian omnibus vanished, but something better appeared in its place. The world saw the difference between an America that speaks for mothers and their unborn children, and a European Union that will kill its own resolution to keep those children off the page.

The scared pregnant mom in a tent city or a flooded village does not care about diplomatic rituals. That baby exists. That baby matters. The American delegation said so. It is time for pro-life nations everywhere to stand beside them and say it too, loudly enough that no one in New York, Brussels, or Stockholm can bury that truth ever again.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.