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Whereas life-threatening conditions, such as preterm pre-
mature rupture of membranes (PPROM), should permit 
lawful emergency care under the Emergency Medical 
Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and under lawful 
exceptions within State abortion bans, but in practice 
these exceptions are not always implemented, thereby 
threatening people’s health and lives; 
Whereas a climate of fear has also deterred providers from 
giving clear information about pregnancy options, and 
even from providing prenatal care early in pregnancy 
when the risk of miscarriage can be high, further under-
mining patients’ rights to informed consent and safe, 
necessary medical care; 
Whereas the chilling effect of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s 
Health Organization decision has resulted in at least 34 
clinics closing in States where abortion remains legal 
since 2024; 
Whereas such restrictive policies have forced high-risk preg-
nancy specialists to flee antiabortion States, including the 
State of Idaho which saw a decrease in high-risk preg-
nancy specialists of over 40 percent in the wake of the 
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision; 
Whereas, 
alongside 
abortion 
restrictions, 
attacks 
on 
LGBTQIA+ health care access, including gender-affirm-
ing care, have increased, impacting marginalized groups; 
Whereas, during this Congress, the Federal Government 
passed a spending bill which cut $1 trillion from critical 
health programs, effectively upending the entire system 
while making it even harder for an estimated 10 million 
people who will lose their health insurance coverage, while 
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also defunding Planned Parenthood by removing access 
to essential Medicaid funds; 
Whereas the United States has been reviewed by two United 
Nations treaty-monitoring bodies since the Dobbs v. 
Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the 
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 
and the Human Rights Committee; 
Whereas, on August 11 and 12, 2022, the United Nations 
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 
reviewed the United States implementation of the Inter-
national Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of 
Racial Discrimination and, on August 30, 2022, issued 
recommendations to the United States Government to ad-
dress the profound disparate impact of the Supreme 
Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Or-
ganization on women of racial and ethnic minorities, In-
digenous women, and those with low incomes; 
Whereas, on October 17 and 18, 2023, the United Nations 
Human Rights Committee reviewed the United States 
implementation of the International Covenant on Civil 
and Political Rights and, on November 3, 2023, issued 
concluding observations to the United States Government 
expressing deep concern over the criminalization of abor-
tion seekers, those who help them, and abortion pro-
viders; restrictions on interstate travel that inhibit access 
to care; bans on medication abortion; the use of digital 
data surrounding abortion for prosecution purposes; and 
the profound impact on the human rights of women and 
girls seeking an abortion, and in particular, the dis-
proportionate impact on women and girls with low in-
comes and from vulnerable groups, those living in rural 
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areas, and those belonging to racial and ethnic minori-
ties; 
Whereas State and local governments play an important role 
in ensuring that the United States complies with its trea-
ty obligations; 
Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Committee rec-
ommended on November 3, 2023, that State and local 
lawmakers uphold human rights in their lawmaking and 
to take specific action to ensure that no one is 
criminalized for a pregnancy outcome, nor anyone who 
provides abortion care or helps someone obtain an abor-
tion, and that all people can access abortion care when 
they need it; 
Whereas, despite the United States Government supporting 
13 recommendations relating to sexual and reproductive 
health in its prior Universal Period Review cycle in 2021, 
the United States has facilitated an increasingly hostile 
legal, policy, and practice landscape around abortion and 
reproductive health care, to a deeply harmful effect; 
Whereas, on August 27, 2025, in an attempt to evade ac-
countability for grave, ongoing human rights violations in 
the country, the United States Department of State sent 
a letter to the Office of the High Commissioner on 
Human Rights stating that the Trump administration 
will not participate in its upcoming Universal Periodic 
Review (UPR), a United Nations process through which 
countries review each other’s human rights records; 
Whereas, on November 7, 2025, following receipt of such let-
ter, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted 
a decision in which it called on the United States to re-
sume its cooperation with the UPR and postponed the 
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UPR to November 2026, while leaving open the possi-
bility for the UPR to be scheduled sooner; 
Whereas every United Nations member country participates 
in the UPR process, and, to date, only two other coun-
tries, Israel and Nicaragua, have ever attempted to evade 
review, and no country has ever fully done so; 
Whereas this proposition to boycott the United States UPR 
presents a dangerous precedent at the United Nations 
and for global accountability mechanisms more broadly; 
Whereas rather than avoiding accountability for the erosion 
and attacks on human rights, all levels of government 
should be working to respect, protect, and ensure human 
rights; 
Whereas, on October 21, 2025, the Town Council of 
Carrboro, North Carolina, unanimously passed a resolu-
tion declaring December 10 as ‘‘Human Rights Day’’ and 
unanimously resolved to advocate for Women’s Health 
and Comprehensive Reproductive Rights as a human 
right, affirmed that all people deserve access to high- 
quality health care without fear of government inter-
ference or punishment, affirmed that North Carolina has 
an obligation to implement and protect human rights, 
and aligns itself with its human rights obligations under 
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Inter-
national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the 
International Convention on the Elimination of All 
Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention 
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading 
Treatment or Punishment, in accordance with clause 2 of 
article VI of the United States Constitution; 
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Whereas, on November 4, 2025, the city of Mount Rainier, 
Maryland, issued a mayoral proclamation declaring De-
cember 10 as ‘‘Human Rights Day’’ and aligning the city 
government with its human rights obligations under the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the city will 
pass a resolution declaring the same in December 2025; 
Whereas, on November 13, 2025, the city of Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, enacted a resolution declaring December 
10 as ‘‘Human Rights Day’’ and elevating the Nation’s 
human rights obligations under the treaties it has rati-
fied, in accordance with clause 2 of article VI of the 
United States Constitution, as well as recognizing that 
these human rights obligations require access to the full 
spectrum of reproductive health care services, including 
abortion care, and uplifting the numerous human rights 
violations across the Nation in States that deny this es-
sential care, including the criminalization of pregnancy 
outcomes, and the exacerbation of severe maternal mor-
bidity and the racial disparities present therein; 
Whereas, on December 3, 2025, Fulton County, Georgia, con-
sidered the adoption of a resolution that affirms that re-
productive rights are human rights, condemns the crim-
inalization of abortion and related services, urges the 
Georgia General Assembly to repeal the State’s six-week 
abortion ban, and recognizes that treaties ratified by the 
United States should be upheld at the Federal, State, 
and local level as they are considered the ‘‘supreme Law 
of the Land’’ under clause 2 of article VI of the United 
States Constitution; 
Whereas, on December 3, 2025, Fulton County, Georgia, pre-
sented a proclamation declaring December 10, 2025, as 
‘‘Human Rights Day’’ and affirming that human rights 
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