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And today he spoke to us about what he sees as one of the most concerning recommendations that will impact reproductive rights:

Caleb Orozco, Commissioner, PCC
"The particular nine recommendations I'm concerned with because it sprinkles white Christian nationalist ideology into the recommendation. I don't remember that we still have a white British colonizer governing us. I don't remember that the Prime Minister is a British citizen or that the opposition leader is a British citizen. Make it make sense that nonwhite people will hold up white supremacy values in this recommendation."

"And call it good for this country. Make it make sense that you you will rob. You will rob a woman, not just woman, youth of their autonomy. Now, one of the recommendations talk about defining life stating at conception. Now suppose you as a woman carry a baby that will not survive out of your womb. And you want to I don't know, for the lack of a better word."

"Remove this baby that will not survive outside of your womb. The particular recommendation I'm concerned with recommendation. It's in other matters, particular too, which speaks to the idea that a woman has no, absolutely no independent choice of how she decides to manage her health. She'll be forced to carry a dead child to term. If she is raped she'll be forced to carry the child to term."

"If her life is at risk. She'll be forced to carry her. She would be forced to risk her life. We're not enslaved by the British colonizers anymore. None of us need to say yes, master no master. In this country. So why we as nonwhite people will then proceed to subjugate our own citizens in this country make it make sense."

He added that these recommendations largely ignore the suggestions put forth by his own community among others. As for the rest of the process that follows, he's not sure what happens next.

Caleb Orozco, Commissioner, PCC
"We've gone to a a planary and we tell the so-called technical people, in the diplomatic chair group, you put this recommendation as an operation of recommendation. They put this recommendation as a constitutional matter. They people the erase the contributions we've made at plenary. That is insidious of them to do so. Separately, I personally have no or rather I am not inspired to take these recommendations to my population for discussion because I spent two years of my life on the P.C.C."

"Just for them to erase the concerns of my population out the recommendation, the disrespect. They never called me chi chi man, battyman but by the mere fact that they have these recommendation that they raise us out of our concerns tells me I will remain a second class citizen in this country for the foreseeable future. Now for the other recommendation, there are literally a recommendation that says we are here to repress control, to tell you as an enslaved person what to do."

"And you don't have no option. And this affects young people. And I say that within the context of the long list that I think I provided with regards to them being robbed of their freedom of expression and dignity and their access to our right to education. I say this within the context that people with disability have been completely erased out of this report."

"Tens of thousands of people with disability in this country and you are telling me they have to deliberate further on whether people with disability need protection. Separately when it comes to the issue of procedure and what happens next? Well, let me clear that up. We don't know. How is it that you right now, the understanding is how is it that you expect me to go back to my population and discuss this recommendation with my money?"

"You're not giving me none. And I suppose to be happy already or be enthusiastic about it, knowing full well that those who follow Christian, white, Christian ideology and enforces white supremacy in this country will just come back and erase the concerns of my population."