Kathryn Balmforth

In the following viewpoint, Kathryn Balmforth asserts that the United States should not ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) because the treaty is part of the continued efforts of radical Western feminists to force their political agenda on the rest of the world. She argues that these feminists have tried since the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women to impose their deleterious definition of women’s rights, which include disparaging motherhood and opposing responsible sexual behavior, on all nations. According to Balmforth, CEDAW would result in intrusive governments bent on modifying human conduct. Balmforth is a civil rights attorney and the former director of the World Family Policy Center.

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