Posted on 07/18/2018 3:38:45 PM PDT by Morgana
C-Fam) Amnesty International will advocate for abortion on-demand as an international human right.
A press release on Amnesty’s website describes its new position as calling on States “not just to decriminalize abortion, but to guarantee access to safe and legal abortion in a broad way that fully respects the rights of all women, girls and people who can get pregnant,” an apparent reference to women who identify as men or as transgender.
The decision was reached by Amnesty International’s General Assembly in Warsaw earlier this month. During the same session the General Assembly also agreed to advocate for legalization of some recreational drug use. The official details of the new positions have yet to be made public.
“We want to make sure we are well placed to fight for the human rights of millions of people whose lives are impacted by how governments criminalize or restrict access to abortion and by the prohibition of drugs,” said Tawanda Mutasah, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Law and Policy according to a press release on Amnesty’s website.
Mutasah described both drug and abortion legalization as a “compassionate approach from governments to protect the rights of the people who are most at risk.”
Amnesty International is a storied human rights organization founded to help free political prisoners behind the Iron curtain during the Cold War. It was founded by Catholic lawyer Peter Benenson in London and enjoyed much Catholic support throughout its history.
After the death of its founder in 2005, like other civil rights organizations in search of a new mission after the fall of the iron curtain, Amnesty International began to support an international human right to abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to save the like of a mother. Until 2007 Amnesty remained officially neutral on abortion even though it opposed the U.S. Mexico City Policy.
Reports indicate it was Kate Gilmore, formerly Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International, who engineered the change of position in 2007, even though it caused strife within the organization and led many supporters to withdraw their contributions. Gilmore is now the second highest UN human rights official after directing programs for the UN Population Fund.
Gilmore’s work came to fruition in recent international debates on abortion. In the Irish referendum and across Latin America, Amnesty International has been perhaps the most visible international organization in favor of depriving children of protections in the womb. Many Amnesty supporters still aren’t aware of this.
According to information received by the Friday Fax, pro-life donors to Amnesty International are still unaware of the change to their policy in 2007, let alone their decision last week to advocate for abortion on-demand, though at that time, many Catholics left the organization including Cardinal Renato Martino, longtime Nuncio to the United Nations.
Amnesty made the announcement the same day U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Kavanaugh may tip the court toward overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which imposed legal abortion on all fifty U.S. states. It is likely that when the previous abortion decision come before the Court that groups like Amnesty International will argue that abortion is a recognized human right binding on the United States.
I guess the unborn aren’t deserving of amnesty.
Sure because that’s their core mission. Not.
I thought their mission was advocating for political prisoners around the world. Why are they taking on this issue?
‘...Why are they taking on this issue?...”
Because libs are dumber than a box of rocks.
Their insanity brings on STUPID in a big way...they’re sickos.
The global shadow government’s #1 priority is population control. Obviously.
And the announcement that various world governments do not desire abortion is news how?
Do not desire abortion to be restrained. Somehow some stray code cut off part of my typing.
Maybe what they are telling us is that women cannot grasp the concept of birth control which must be much harder to accomplish than killing a fetus.
That’ll work out great for everyone...except no amnesty for the little babies.
Amnesty international has been a shadow puppet of various government agencies which fund it since the very early eighties.
Local chapters have zero input or affect on the organizational headquarters and usually fold when that fact finally dawns on the members. I attended one such group in ‘86 to ‘87 at Oklahoma State.
Its a propaganda mouthpiece wholly controlled by the deep state.
The more general problem is conservative activists don’t try to get control of these groups, but leftists are always available to corrupt everything.
Fuch off Amnesty International.
Fuch you all to hell. And then some more in hell.
You completely and utterly misunderstand how Amnesty International is structured.
The only way to affect Amnesty International in any way, shape, or form would be to become a policy maker in Washington or Brussels in charge of one of the organizations that actually are Amnesty International.
Local chapters have no input of any sort, nor does the main organization send representatives down the ladder who interface with them at any time.
Abortion is a human right and someone else has to pay for it.
Notice how they announced it in Poland?
That fits in very nicely with Bill and Melinda Gates’ vision of reducing the surplus population by a cool 4 billion or so.
I’m sure AI is being payed well for this.
Isn’t that separating children from their mothers?
Closer to Brussels where the people who run it are.
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