Abortion as a Fundamental Human Right

The Center for Reproductive Rights is pleased.  According to this press release, "the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) decided its first abortion case, KL v. Peru.  The decision establishes that denying access to legal abortion violates women’s most basic human rights.  This is the first time an international human rights body has held a government accountable for failing to ensure access to legal abortion services. . . .  The ruling specifically establishes violations to the right to be free from cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment, privacy, special protection of the rights of a minor. It orders the Peruvian government to provide Llontoy with reparations, and to adopt the necessary regulations to guarantee access to legal abortion."

I'd appreciate comment from those MOJ-ers (and others) who are expert on these matters to inform us (a) whether this "ruling" is really a ruling, or more of an "opinion letter" (which was sought precisely to lay the groundwork for a later "ruling"); and (b) why the international-human-rights enterprise, as currently conducted, deserves Catholics' respect and endorsement.