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Patriot Voices
ICYMI:
Santorum: Bury CRPD Once and for All
Former Senator Authors Op-ed in Roll Call Against U.N. Disabilities
Treaty
Verona, PA -- Former U.S. Senator, former Republican presidential
candidate, chairman of Patriot Voices and author of Blue Collar
Conservatives Rick Santorum authored an opinion piece in Roll Call
discussing his opposition to the United Nation Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Senator Santorum and Patriot Voices were instrumental in stopping CRPD
when it came before the Senate in 2012. Now that CRPD was
recently voted out of committee and it may come before the Senate this
fall, Santorum lays out additional arguments about CRPD's flaws.
Below are excerpts of "Problematic Disabilities Treaty Up for
Consideration Again."
"Some hope this treaty would encourage other countries to change how
they treat their disabled citizens. Unfortunately, one only needs to
look around the world for proof of the CRPD's ineffectiveness. Most of
the world has already ratified the treaty, including some of the
world's most brutal dictatorships. There is no one reason why the CRPD
has failed as a global tool for aiding the world's disabled, but it has
failed. Having the United States ratify the CRPD will not magically
make the treaty effective...
Despite its defeat in 2012, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert
Menendez, D-N.J., tried to bring it up again in 2013. At that time Sen.
Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the ranking Republican of the committee, used the
hearings to ask some very pointed questions reflecting the concerns of
millions of other Americans. After an effort to work with Democrats and
the State Department to develop reservations, understandings and
declarations designed to quarantine the most troublesome parts of the
treaty, Corker announced last December in no uncertain terms that he
could no longer support the treaty. He determined that it posed a real
threat to our sovereignty, our federalist system and democratic
governance in general...
At a time when the world is burning, and there are serious foreign
policy challenges and threats in every corner of the globe, Democrats
should stop wasting precious time promoting a treaty that at best is
ineffective and at worst does not serve American interests. If
this treaty ever goes before the full Senate again, I respectfully ask
my former colleagues to bury it once and for all."
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