Changes to the United Nations’ 2005 international health regulations (IHR) have been occurring “under the radar” because Americans would object to the unconstitutionality of the changes, according to Jonathan Alexandre, a senior counsel for international litigation nonprofit Liberty Counsel.
The Biden administration proposed 13 amendments to the IHR, that, if approved, would alter international public health rules—including expanding the powers given to the WHO director-general to declare a public health emergency, bypassing U.S. governmental bodies.
Loyce Pace, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for global affairs, defended the amendments in January during remarks given virtually to the 150th Session of the Executive Board at the WHO in Geneva about pandemic preparedness.
HHS officials didn’t respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for further comment.
Alexandre said the 13 amendments submitted by the administration are shameful and dangerous.
“The shameful part is that it’s coming from our president, the fact that Joe Biden has proposed these 13 amendments.
“The danger in it is that it’s ceding control over to this government entity that is not the United States, and the unconstitutional part is that they don’t abide by any of our Bill of Rights, any of the freedoms that we’ve committed ourselves to,“ he said. The WHO is ”an unelected body that is determined for whatever cause is necessary to basically put the world on a chokehold, have it follow its dictates, depending on what threat or pandemic it deems at the moment to be necessary in order to lock down the entire world.”
The Biden administration in past statements has denied that the IHR amendments would weaken U.S. sovereignty.
Alexandre said these amendments give the WHO, and specifically its director-general, the power to bypass “any governmental authority within the United States, ... any accountability that these people have to elected individuals, [and] any authority that is seated from the Constitution.”