United Nations Treaty Compromises Parents’ Rights to Their Children

Senate vote to ratify coming before end of year

Congress is considering signing a United Nations treaty that the mass media is not discussing. This treaty, called the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), is up for discussion and will likely go to the Senate for a vote in early December.

While some members of the House of Representatives oppose this convention/treaty, it appears that an overwhelming majority of the Senate strongly favors it. President Obama has also voiced his approval. Last August, while speaking at the Disabled Veterans National Conference in Orlando, Florida, he said:

… I know how disappointing it was last year when the Senate failed to approve the disabilities treaty despite the fact that we had a former senator and World War II veteran, Bob Dole, in the Senate chamber.  But we’re gonna keep fighting to ratify that treaty…It’s the right thing to do.  We’re gonna get it done.

Read the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

The UNCRPD appears to be an innocuous document, but is worded in such a way that if disabled individuals, including children, are not afforded their right to communicate, reproduce, and learn, in the way the States Parties deem best, the States Parties can intervene and take control.

Of primary concern is the fact that once Congress signs the UNCRPD, it will be much easier for Congress to get the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child signed.

Read the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (‘convention’ is another name for ‘treaty’) was designed by the United Nations in 1989 to protect children in war-torn, poverty-stricken countries where conditions are notoriously horrific and children are routinely abused.

If signed, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child would strip American parents of the right to use their own judgment to decide what their child should be allowed to do, watch, attend, learn, read, or share with others; and would instead guarantee the child the freedom to make those very adult decisions for him/herself with only an official document and the United Nations as guiding forces.

Moreover, the U.N. would guarantee our children a lot more freedom than parents may allow them. Consider that according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, anyone under 18 is guaranteed freedom from “interference with his or her privacy…or correspondence” [Article 16 UNCRC], the freedom to assemble and the freedom of asssociation, [Article 15] and the freedom to “seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds…through…any media of the child’s choice” [Article 13 UNCRC]. These are only a few of the freedoms the United Nations sees fit to guarantee American children.

Because according to our Constitution all treaties signed by the United States supersede our Constitution [Article 6], a signed treaty immediately becomes the law of the land even if it takes away some of the freedoms the Constitution guarantees.

Read the U.S. Constitution.

Signing treaties is a way for Congress to quietly change the Constitution without the American public being aware it’s happening.

For example, did you know that the Senate very nearly passed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on December 4, 2012? Of the 100 Senators in Congress, 61 voted to ratify this treaty which hands to the United Nations the power to dictate how the disabled in our country should be treated. With each U.N. convention signed we give the United Nations a greater say in how our country should function.

See how your senator voted on the UNCRPD on December 4, 2012.

While none of us would say that we agree with each and every decision made by every member of Congress and our President, we elected those people. What if we were to hand over our power to leaders we do not and cannot elect? And how Congress votes now will affect how much freedom we have to raise our children and grandchildren in the future.