Vatican refuses to sign U.N. landmark convention over right of disabled unborn to life - Catholic Online

re: "UNITED NATIONS (Catholic Online) – The Vatican has refused to sign the just-adopted United Nations landmark treaty to promote and protect the rights of the world’s 650 million disabled people over a clause that may be used to deny the right to life of disabled unborn persons./ In Dec. 13 remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that took five years to shape, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, apostolic nuncio of the Holy See’s permanent mission to the U.N., stressed that the protection of “the rights, dignity and worth of persons with disabilities remains a major concern for the Holy See.”..."...