I recently noted that the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty is floundering, as countries are no longer keen to commit themselves to an organization that failed so spectacularly during the last pandemic.
US Senators are trying to nip any American participation in the bud, given how keenly the Biden administration and Democrats embrace the gutting of our national needs in favor of those pushed by global bureaucracies.
In a letter sent to Biden, the entire Republican Senate conference called on the occupant of the Oval Office to reject agreements that would expand the WHO’s authority in the case of a global pandemic.
“We strongly urge you not to join any pandemic related treaty, convention, or agreement being considered” at the 77th World Health Assembly, reads a letter sent to Biden by [Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-WI)] and all 48 other Republican senators.The Republican senators stressed that any such agreement would be considered a treaty, which they noted requires “the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senate under Article I Section 2 of the Constitution.”The World Health Assembly (WHA) will take place from May 27 to June 1, and international agreements are expected to be considered.The WHA is the WHO’s decision-making body, which meets yearly, so it can lay out its goals and craft policies between the 194 member states.
The GOP looks pretty eager to make this an election issue.
…[A] a growing coalition of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as well as supporters of former President Donald Trump, have been rallying against the treaty. During a news conference Monday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., and Wenstrup argued the treaty is too political and relies too heavily on financial support from U.S. taxpayers.Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, called the draft “a global power grab” that forces progressive social policies on countries. The agreement calls for the continuation of essential health services, which include abortion.Smith also objected to the WHO’s relationship with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and interest in forming a relationship with the Center for Reproductive Rights. The WHO is expected to vote in May to grant official relations with the center.The group also said it worried about potential financial obligations, saying participating countries would not know their financial obligations under the treaty until well after the treaty is signed.
To say the WHO is desperate to get the deal done in the upcoming meeting would be an understatement.
“Give the people of the world, the people of your countries, the people you represent, a safer future,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a Geneva meeting.”So I have one simple request: please, get this done, for them,” he said. He encouraged countries who did not fully agree with the text to at least refrain from blocking consensus among WHO’s 194 member states.One of the main points of disagreement between wealthy countries and developing states is the vexed issue of sharing drugs and vaccines fairly to avoid a repeat of COVID-era failures.Some right-wing politicians in countries like the United States and Australia have also criticised the accord, which would be legally binding, arguing that it cedes too much power to a U.N. agency.Tedros has strongly refuted this argument, saying the accord would help countries better guard against outbreaks.
However, there is good hope for liberty-loving Americans. There has only been once in 75-year history that the WHO’s member countries have been able to agree to a legally binding treaty …which as the tobacco control treaty in 2003.
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