ECLJ working to protect life at the international level

August 31, 2006

(Strasbourg, France)—ECLJ has been busy working with American and international pro-life organizations in two vital areas involving life. The European Centre for Law and Justice, as well as the Centre Francais Pour La Justice Et Les Droits Fondamentaux De La Personne Humaine, have been assisting American pro-life groups in their opposition to the recent decision of the American Food and Drug Administration to legalize RU-486 without a prescription for all persons over the age of 18. The major response of the FDA to opponents of the liberalization of the new regulations was that empirical data from France supported that RU-486 was safe and that no fatalities have occurred from use of the drug in several years. However, research done by the ECLJ and CFJD highlight the fact that since 1996, the French government has not been keeping statistics on such matters and has no official monitoring mechanism in place to give such empirical data to the FDA.

ECLJ has also been working with several Christian and pro-life organizations in establishing a definition for the term sexual and reproductive health. The phrase, which remains undefined, has been used as a term of art referencing abortion and is being pushed into all major U.N. documents from the Economic and Social Committee by the European Union and Inter-United Nations agencies. ECLJ will work with top-level Members of European Parliament in pushing for a definition of the term at the European level to prevent its further covert insertion into international documents in the hope of influencing customary international law in the area of life.