30 years UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Today it is exactly 30 years ago that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was unanimously adopted:

"Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."

Exactly 30 years after the adoption of this Convention, the Justice Committee of the Belgian Federal Parliament is debating the removal of any protection, and the removing of the recognition of every humanity of unborn life, and this completely until birth.

The banalisation from abortion to "normal medical treatment" and the complete depenalisation (in case of violation of the conditions, for example when the 18-week period is exceeded) means that the humanity of the unborn child is completely ignored.

If a doctor kills a newborn baby, that's rightly murder. If the same doctor kills the same baby a few hours earlier, just before the birth is started, then according to the current legislative proposals, this is at most a deontological error. In this way, his humanity is ignored and any legal protection of this child as an individual human life is denied.

Those proposals are inhuman and disgraceful. The protection of the rights of the child, also of the unborn child, must be another priority!