Don't Sacrifice Independence to UN Treaty

The overpaid and underworked bureaucrats at the United Nations are constantly thinking up mischief that would invade U.S. sovereignty on various issues. One of the most obnoxious of these UN issues is a document called the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In UN parlance, a convention is a not a convention at all; it is a treaty which, if we ratify would become part of the supreme law of our land and our judges would be bound thereby. This treaty has a clumsy name so it is colloquially referred to by its acronym as CEDAW. The treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 but, fortunately never ratified b y the U.S. Senate. For year,s it was kept in the bottom drawer by Senator Jesse Helms, but we don't have him to protect us any more. CEDAW has been pet project of Hillary Clinton, and now that she is Secretary of State, we will probably see a push to ratify it.

Among the many reasons why the U.S. Senate should vote No on CEDAW are these. First: We don't need it; American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on earth, and the idea that the UN could expand our rights is downright ridiculous. Second: CEDAW, like every UN treaty, is an invasion of our sovereignty, The treaty sets up a monitoring commission of feminists (like Hillary Clinton or Barbara Boxer) who will be empowered to order us to do ridiculous things. One example is this commission's instruction to Belarus to cancel its national celebration of Mother's Day because it supposedly violates women's rights by perpetuating a negative cultural stereotype.

Listen to my entire radio commentary on this topic.