WHO Gives Special Status to Radical Abortion Group
After a razor thin vote and abundant criticism from the developing world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has given special status to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a rabidly pro-abortion legal group based in the United States. During the debate, traditional countries opposed the effort vociferously. WHO executive board members indicate preference for secret ballot on CRR vote The Biden administration and Western countries rammed the decision through the executive board of the WHO over multiple objections in a razor-thin secret vote. Of the thirty-four countries on the board of the health agency only 17 voted in favor of the abortion group, 13 voted against, and 4 abstained. Egypt accused Western countries of politicizing the WHO and vowed to appeal the decision to the wider membership of the organization at the next World Health Assembly. The African group of 47 countries, the 54 countries of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation and the Russian Federation joined that promise. While the executive board of the WHO oversees the operation of the agency, the legal mandates of the agency derive from the World Health Assembly. Western countries insisted on a vote by secret ballot, first proposed by France though normal protocol for voting in the executive board is by a show of hands.
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