The Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has said the latest call from a United Nations committee on Ireland to legislate for abortion is damaging the international body’s reputation. In a new report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), it expresses concern that “access to abortion in the State [Ireland] is restricted to cases where there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the pregnant woman under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 …” The PLC has responded that CEDAW “in effect calls for the overturning of all meaningful protections for the unborn child under the Eighth Amendment…The purpose of the CEDAW committee is to highlight and seek to eliminate discrimination. Abortion, however, is the ultimate discrimination as it targets the most vulnerable in society, namely unborn babies.” The pro-life group went on to accuse UN committees like CEDAW of losing “all credibility as defenders of authentic human rights” and in recent years becoming “cheerleaders” for the abortion movement.