Posted on 05/08/2014 6:43:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Center for Reproductive Rights, a non-governmental organization that advocates for legalized abortion, is urging the United Nations Committee Against Torture to tell the Catholic Church that “the freedom of speech and of religion” do not give the church the right to advocate against abortion.
When the committee met in Geneva on Monday for a hearing on the Vatican’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture, Vice Chairperson Felice Gaer, an American, said in her opening statement that laws that ban all abortion—which is the position of the Catholic Church—may violate the convention. She also repeated verbatim some language that had been in a letter the CRR had sent to the committee on April 11.
Gaer, however, did not quote the section in CRR’s letter that urged the committee to tell the church that the freedoms of religion and speech did not give the church a right to advocate against abortion. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
So they want war?
We need to tear that building down.
Folks, we will be actively fighting back against this idiocy the rest of our lives, just as liberals keep pushing to define deviancy down.
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Who gives a sh*^ about the UN?
Not if we have a national divorce. The sooner the better.
So fetuses have no REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!
The demons sure are loose in the world.
I did not realize that the Catholic Church was dependent on the UN for its rights allocation.
In the end, rather than win arguments, the Left always reaches for the gun, or its closest facsimile.
Their way or die, it’s that simple.
What? No, abortion is not torture, its murder.
...as for me and my house, we will follow the Lord.
The UN has no right to tell Catholics what to believe.
What right do they have to exist?
I will vote for the person that promises to send these a$$holes packing.
When I first read dystopian SciFi, I always wondered what life would be like in one of those fantastical imaginings.
Now I know. No joke intended. I genuinely know.
Evil. No other word for it.
And where does their money come from — I’d like to know who is financing this so-called “NGO”?
What they really want to do is kill five or six billion people.
In other words, the CRR believes the Church is subject to permission of the State to exist. They think wrong.
” “the freedom of speech and of religion” do not give the church the right to advocate against abortion.”
In what universe does this make any sense?
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