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CV News Feed // The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill that would prevent the Biden Administration from signing the pro-abortion World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Treaty without the prior consent of the Senate, as is stipulated expressly in the Constitution.
The bill, No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act (HR 1425), passed the Republican-led House 219-199 on September 11, and now heads to the Senate. Congressman Chris Smith, R-NJ, a strong supporter and co-sponsor of the bill, called the proposed treaty that the bill concerns a “power grab” by the WHO and praised the bill for keeping the Biden administration accountable to the nation.
In a press release on the bill’s passage, Smith declared, “The World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty—which has been drafted through backroom negotiations with no transparency—is an absolute power grab by a troubled U.N. agency that is in the pocket of China’s Communist dictator Xi Jinping.”
“From the very start, we have been pressing the Biden-Harris Administration to ensure that our U.S. sovereignty is protected from the unelected bureaucrats at the WHO, but so far, our demands have not been heeded,” he continued:
This important legislation will help ensure that there is extensive and rigorous review by the American people—who would be forced to foot the bill for any treaty commitments—and sufficient public debate by members of the Senate before any agreement can be made by the Biden-Harris Administration.
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According to the bill’s webpage on Congress.gov, HR 1425 would require that “any convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response reached by the World Health Assembly to be subject to Senate ratification.”
In February of this year, Smith led a Congressional hearing to raise alarm about the proposed treaty. In addition to the issues of maintaining political sovereignty regarding health policies and the constitutional requirement that the Senate approve any international treaty, Smith backed the concerns of pro-life Americans regarding the explicit pro-abortion clauses of the treaty.
At the February hearing on Capitol Hill, Smith stated that both abortion and transgender procedures for minors, which either mutilate or chemically sterilize a child, were included as “essential health services” in the WHO Pandemic Treaty, which would mean the WHO could declare national or local bans on abortion and transgender procedures to constitute a “health crisis” and then impose its pro-abortion, pro-transgender policies on the country in question.
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Warning that the treaty explicitly included the WHO’s aggressive abortion agenda, Smith detailed at the hearing in February, “Paragraph 13 of the Pandemic Agreement affirms the need to prioritize ‘equity and respect for human rights’, yet on November 25, 2021, the WHO made clear that it construes the killing of unborn children by abortion – dismemberment, child beheading and starvation, and that’s how the abortion pill works – to be a human right.”
“Last February, WHO granted abortion provider and promoter International Planned Parenthood Federation ‘official relations with WHO’ status,” he continued:
In August, WHO’s director general signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights to advance laws and policies according to WHO guidelines. And what’s that?
WHO’s law and policy guidelines on abortion – Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief – a supplement to the WHO Abortion Care Guideline, proposes actions ‘to create an enabling environment’ for abortion and seeks the overturning of laws regulating or restricting abortion including waiting periods, parental notification, conscientious objection, and any gestational age limit – WHO now is pushing laws to legalize abortion for all nine months!
In January of this year, numerous American pro-life organizations, including the National Right to Life Committee, Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, AUL, Family Research Council, Heritage Foundation, and LifeNews, signed a letter authored by the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) addressed to the WHO executive board calling on them to refrain from entering into a partnership with the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights.
In October 2023, C-Fam had already warned that the WHO was pushing an explicit abortion agenda in its health treaty in an attempt to impose abortion on all member states party to the proposed agreement. In a statement published at the time, C-Fam stated:
The WHO has taken an increasingly extreme position on abortion, recently releasing a guideline calling for the repeal of all legal restrictions on abortion and seeking to curtail the right of health care providers to opt out of providing or assisting with abortions as a matter of conscience.
From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO insisted that abortion was an essential service, eventually urging countries to relax abortion regulations and consider expanding telemedicine mechanisms for delivering abortion drugs.
The WHO subsequently built on this recommendation in its 2022 abortion guideline, expanding it to non-emergency contexts for the first time, and explicitly referring to how telemedicine had “helped support access to abortion and family planning services during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Negotiators of the treaty failed to reach an agreed upon final text to submit to the World Health Assembly for a vote before the deadline this past May, but advocates for the treaty continue to pressure for an adoption of the treaty with its pro-abortion agenda in the future.
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