{"id":522041,"date":"2010-04-09T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2010-04-09T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T12:50:18","slug":"will-cedaw-bring-a-%e2%80%9cradical-transformation-of-american-law%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522041","title":{"rendered":"Will CEDAW Bring A \u201cRadical Transformation of American Law\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know a lot about CEDAW, the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/womenwatch\/daw\/cedaw\/text\/econvention.htm\">Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women<\/a>, but I know that lots of groups on both sides think the treaty is really important. For instance, in this <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.c-fam.org\/publications\/id.1605\/pub_detail.asp\">post<\/a>, a critic of CEDAW quotes a proponent of CEDAW,\u00a0Janet Benshoof,\u00a0\u00a0for the view that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[W]ere the United States (US) to ratify CEDAW, it would bring about a \u201cradical transformation of American law,\u201d which would include overturning any abortion restrictions in domestic laws or those covering foreign activities. Further, Benshoof asserted that CEDAW doesn\u2019t allow for any defense based on custom or religion, and that it applies to all private conduct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess my (admittedly not expert) reading doesn&#8217;t see where the big transformation is. \u00a0Not to mention the treaty is almost certainly non-self-executing. \u00a0But this debate may eventually come back to us when (or if) the Obama Administration makes a final push for CEDAW (although that will probably not be until Obama&#8217;s second term, if there is a second term).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/VsHIfqQsPbY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku I don&#8217;t know a lot about CEDAW, the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, but I know that lots of groups on both sides think the treaty is really important. For instance, in this post, a critic of CEDAW quotes a proponent of CEDAW,\u00a0Janet Benshoof,\u00a0\u00a0for the view that: &#8220;[W]ere the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}