SJR11 urges Congress to ratify the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This international treaty, among its other provisions, “affirms women’s right to reproductive choice” and stresses that “a change in the traditional role of men as well as the role of women in society and in the family is needed.”
The Senate passed SJR11 on April 12, 2021, by a vote of 18 to 3. We have assigned pluses to the nays because both states and Congress have a constitutional duty to secure the right to life for unborn persons, as well as other rights retained by the traditional family, which is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. Moreover, the U.S. should rescind its membership in the United Nations, whose founding Charter undermines American national sovereignty by establishing a framework for expansive global governance towards a one-world state.