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Protecting the Rights of Parents and Their Children

Jul. 25, 2012 1:40pm
Karen and Rick Santorum have been married 22 years and are the parents of seven children: Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Sarah Maria, Peter, Patrick and Isabella.  […]
Karen and Rick Santorum have been married 22 years and are the parents of seven children: Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Sarah Maria, Peter, Patrick and Isabella. Rick served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, and represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. Sen. Santorum was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2012, ultimately winning 11 states and 3 million votes in the primary process before suspending his campaign in April.
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We are the proud parents of seven wonderful children ages four to 21.  And, as parents do, we’ve discovered over the course of many years that being a parent is a lifetime of hard work and commitment; an incredibly rich and rewarding gift.

But, as parents do, we’ve also made our share of mistakes along the way. Indeed, through trial and error, ups and downs, patience and love, we have grown as parents and have learned what works best for our children and for our family.

It is through this experience that we have come to know and understand that it is not the government that knows what is best for our children, but that we do.

It seems, however, that President Obama holds the opposite to be true. And nothing speaks more to his belief than his support for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“CRPD”).

On the surface, CRPD calls for numerous protections for people with disabilities. Many of these protections are consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, CRPD also includes provisions that were drafted by the United Nations and should concern all Americans. If ratified, CRPD would become the law of the land under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, and would trump state laws, and could be used as precedent by state and federal judges. Since it is a treaty, the Constitution requires that it must be ratified by two-thirds of the United States Senate.

There are two very troubling provisions in this treaty. The first spreads the identical standard for the control of children with disabilities as is contained in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. This means that the Federal government, acting under U.N. directions, can determine for all children with disabilities what is best for them. The second, the education provision of CRPD does not support the parental rights rules of past U.N. human rights treaties. Omission of these rules would potentially eradicate parental rights for the education of children with disabilities.

Over the years we have seen many U.N. treaties which can endanger the American way of life by attempting to trump U.S. laws. As a matter of foreign policy, we firmly believe that we should never allow our beliefs and values to be outsourced to outside entities that may not always have our best interests in mind.

On this particular treaty, however, we come at it from a more personal experience.

During our campaign for president, many of you learned about our daughter Bella.  She is a special-needs child who has blessed our hearts. In working with health-care professionals, we found that a few advised treatments were not only not helpful to Bella, but could actually be quite harmful. As parents, it was crucial to be involved to make the proper decision for the best benefits of our child. And through our experience caring for her, we found that we are far from alone.

Many parents across the U.S. care for special-needs children, and like us, they know that they are best equipped to do so. They are deeply invested in their children, and are the best liaison between their child and the proper care provided by physicians, nurses, and other health-care personnel. And as their special-needs children get older, these parents determine what educational options are best for them.

What’s so problematic here is that the provisions of this treaty could open the door for a professional or government official to override the decision that we as parents need to make for our special-needs children.

Having been blessed with Bella, and all of our wonderful children, we’ve learned that when it comes to their care, we know what’s best.  CRPD threatens to take parents out of the equation and attempt to determine the right path for children they have never met.

This is yet one more example of Barack Obama’s ideology and mission to give more power to the government; to allow the government to dictate what our rights are.

But our rights do not come from Barack Obama’s Administration, or from any government, for that matter. Our rights come from God. When government defines what rights Americans can have, they can also take those rights away.  In forfeiting our parental rights, we endanger our children’s future.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is planning hearings on this treaty as early as tomorrow, July 26, despite an announcement last week that the issue was to be postponed indefinitely. Karen and I are urging continued pressure on the White House and on the U.S. Senate to ensure that this treaty never sees the light of day on the Senate floor. Together we know we can make a tremendous impact when we speak with one voice on an issue we feel passionately about. It is astounding that the U.S. Senate was even considering ratification of this treaty, which would effectively give the United Nations oversight on how we care for our special-needs kids.

Comments (32)

  • AmerNDN10
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:12pm

    I had just visited Patriot Voices forum and someone called their Senator and that Sen. assured this person that this treaty is so that OTHER nations follow OUR law on rights of the disabled. Oh yeahhh? I don’t think so when OUR great country NEVER EVER wanted a parent to register their disabled child.
    OMG they are utterly out of control. DC has lost all brains.

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  • AmerNDN10
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:04pm

    When I heard Kerry speak about this treaty I wasn’t surprised but when I saw McSpain(McCain) praise it I was angry….hence why we call them repubicans! for they have brains as small as their pub…er uh private parts!
    What a bunch of evil evil men (and Pelosi) we have in DC. the UN should be excavated right away! Make rooom for more apt’s on NYC’s East side. ;o) This is so wrong on so many levels and I am llivid ; ;maybe it is the book Agenda 21 I am reading but nah this just stinks on ice.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 6:13pm

    Disband the U.n. now. Defund it and replace it with an organization of free and democratic REPUBLICS or very close facsimiles. The U.N. is a disgrace. The U,N. is a rogue organizations of evildoers who couldn’t oversee a free election process, stand by as an interim institution or anything else it was created to do. The U.n. has become one of the greatest threats to Democracy the World has ever known.

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    • txdave22
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:16pm

      Angelina Spencer, the executive director of the Association of Club Executives, which serves as a trade association for strip clubs, said an informal survey of convention business in New York and Denver had determined that Republicans dropped more money at clubs, by far.

      “Hands down, it was Republicans,” she said. “The average was $150 for Republicans and $50 for Democrats.”

      As further evidence of the clubs’ nonpartisan appeal, Don Kleinhans, the owner of the 2001 Odyssey, said when the Promise Keepers, a male evangelical group, came to town years ago, business was rollicking.

      “We had phenomenal numbers all weekend, and they walked in wearing badges and name tags and weren’t shy at all,” he said.

      James Davis, a spokesman for the Republican National Convention, declined to discuss Tampa’s prominent strip clubs.

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  • Creativethinker
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:37pm

    I’ve already emailed my senator(the republican one) the democratic one is a commie. Said I had better not see you in favor of ANY UN Treaty that comes across the senate for a vote.

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    • Caremom
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:28am

      We need more folks to read this editorial and let their senators know their thoughts ASAP. Usurpation of states’ sovereignty to a global governance is specious.

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  • traitorbill
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:31pm

    Our government works so well, why don’t we just submit to a world government?

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  • BlazeMom
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:29pm

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention BLAZE!!

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:27pm

    Get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the U.S.!

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  • AllAmericanGirl22
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:08pm

    This very scary and sad. We already how this administration feels about disabled children, they want to euthanize them. So what is this UN treaty? A free pass for the government to do just that. God help us all.

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  • LeonardH
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 4:47pm

    Things are already much worse for families than the masses realize.

    See American Family Rights

    http://familyrights.us

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  • staythecourse
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 4:41pm

    People really have no idea of just how powerful this government is when it comes to their “RIGHT” to take your child away….until it happens to you. There is a whole army of “social workers” whose only interest is ‘for the good of the ‘child’ don’t ya know’….obamacare will make it much worse. Coupled with the Social worker reinvestment act which provides funding and training for this new breed of psuedo parents who are too young to ever have raised a child themselves…obamacare WILL take YOUR child away from you. Folks need to know that obamacare authorizes the feds to be responsible for the ‘adult formation of children’ and if you don’t believe in LGPT rights, or abortion, you will be considered an ‘at risk’ person to your child. All it takes for the gov to take your child away from you is a false accusation and then it is up to you to prove them wrong.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 4:39pm

    Progressive philosophy does not recognize the individual. Thus, there are also no individual rights. Only the collective has rights.
    It won’t be just special needs people. They are just the canary in the coal mine. We ALL will be forced into submission to the State. That’s our future unless we rid ourselves of President Obey-Me in a few months’ time! He is THE greatest threat to human liberty of our lifetimes, and he’s sitting right in the White House! Those are literally the stakes!

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  • TRILO
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Just another step towards a neutered USSA. You know this will be played as a vote against persons with disabilities. Since we no longer have any true Constitutionally centered Senators that actually have a set, I am certain this will fly through with flying colors. No one wants to be against a group of people with disabilities.

    On another note… it is because of RINOs like you Mr Santorum and the fact we the people were asleep for so long that we find our selves in this heap of cr@p!

    It is election year for many in the Senate so maybe calling our useless Senators might do some good.

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  • summersmom
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:31pm

    wtf!

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  • AnimalsAsLeaders
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:26pm

    Everyone here is so focused on the UN. Yes, they drafted a treaty but it doesn’t mean squat if our representatives don’t ratify it. The US holds a privileged position in the UN, we don’t have to do anything we don’t want to. The UN is going to do dangerous and stupid stuff all the time, that’s a fact and there’s no need worrying about it because we can’t change that. What we do have control over is whose hands these treaties fall into.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on July 25, 2012 at 6:13pm

      Ah, but it will if Obama signs it. Ratified or not, it will hold power of law until a President repudiates it.

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  • carpee
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:06pm

    Frankly, I don’t want anything from the UN to be ratified here.

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    • randy
      Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:14pm

      Anyone who votes for anything to do with the UN lost my vote.
      We are headed for a civil war in this country people.

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  • SEOhio
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:59pm

    supremacy clause = n. Article VI, section 2 of the U. S. Constitution which reads: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” Thus a Supreme Court ruling can be binding on state courts if involving a constitutional issue.
    So if the Senate does not call it to the floor for a vote it automaticly becomes law? Am I getting this right?
    If so this could get REALLY BAD, really quick. 2nd Amendment, hell all of our laws could go bye-bye! Can you say NEW WORLD ORDER!

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    • Landon410
      Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:36pm

      i think you missed the part that said if its contrary to our contistution the constitution wins, second amendment is there, now that doesnt mean the half white president wont try to get rid of itusing the UN

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:47pm

      I don’t think so; there is a 1957 Supreme Court case that declares the US Constitution takes any and all precidence over foreign treaties; and that treaties have to be ratified by the 2/3 majority of the Senate.

      I’ll see if I can find the specific case; but I believe under Pres Bush the Supreme Court held the same case above to declare a treaty he signed is superceded by the Constitution – something concerning the World Court and such.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on July 25, 2012 at 4:26pm

      SNOW, after the 0bamacare ruling, we can no longer make the assumption that the SCOTUS will uphold the Constitution or precedence in prior cases that doesn’t support their agenda.

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  • lisa2994
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:54pm

    YEP! Dick Morris has a book talking about all the treaties the UN is trying to get us to pass and it is downright scary!

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  • BobtheMoron
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:32pm

    I’ve been preaching the gospel of leaving the UN and moving it somewhere else. Actually, anywhere else. Maybe China would like to have all of the blood sucking leeches.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:30pm

    This is what happens when communities start voting these people into local and state offices and get in to various judicial appointments. This country as we know it may no longer have the people in place to ward off these evil people. They are Godless and evil and do not, will not and because they are blinded by evil, have the capacity to make decisions that strengthens families. Know that when some people are running on your local tickets that you may have resons to suspect and make sure they are vetted. The way they are coming into government is on the local and state levels and are blocking justice on these levels. We already know what the feds are. They know we know it and are siding with those who are trying to destroy this country on any issue.

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  • jspec33
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:22pm

    Screw the UN!

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  • watchdogmom
    Posted on July 25, 2012 at 2:15pm

    Kick the United Nations the HELL out of America. Along with all commies in local,state and federal positions. NOW.

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