Amnesty for Abortion

Campus Report ^ | July 11, 2008 | Ben Giles

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Amnesty for Abortion

by: Ben Giles, July 11, 2008

Amnesty International recently addressed the Supreme Court of Mexico, urging the high court to uphold an April 2007 decision legalizing abortion in Mexico City, according to reports by Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute.

“Fulfilling its duty to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to life does not require the Mexican state to restrict women’s access to safe abortion services,” AI wrote in a statement to the court.

Mexico has traditionally outlawed abortion but for exceptional cases such as rape and illness. A majority of Mexican provinces still follow laws which make abortion illegal. The 2007 legislation, which legalized abortion through the twelfth week of pregnancy, applies only to citizens within Mexico City.

AI argues that under the current laws, the situation in Mexico has proved hostile for women. Their statement cited high rates of maternal mortality due to clandestine abortions and obstruction of access to legal abortions for those women who qualify for exceptional circumstance.

“Unreasonable restrictions on women’s access to safe abortion services are not conducive to giving effect to the right to life,” wrote AI. Interestingly, the stringency of Mexico policy calls into question the frequently-made assertion by pro-choice groups in the U.S. that America has the most draconian abortion laws in the world.

AI’s statement comes in response to the federal Human Rights Commission, which challenged the new law last year with the help of Mexico’s Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora on the basis that liberalized abortion law violate the Mexican constitution. California Catholic Daily reported Mora testified that the constitution protects human life from the moment of conception...

[GloriaJane]

The abortion business isn’t the place I would expect to find Amnesty International.

[tbpiper]

So what we do to terrorist in Gitmo is reprehensible, but what abortionist do to unborn babies in Mexico City is OK. AI is as morally schizophrenic as the liberals here.

[GloriaJane]

You’ve got that right. Crazy isn’t it?

[ArchAngel1983]

” The abortion business isn’t the place I would expect to find Amnesty International.”

They claim it’s a ‘human right’ to kill unborn and partially born babies. I’ll bet Planned Baronhood has a ‘behind the scenes’ involvement in this as they look to franchise the operation to Mexico.

[cpforlife.org]

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[Lexinom]

I have a very simple question for the "Safe and Legal" crowd. I'll say it slowly so they can comprehend it:

IS...ABORTION...SAFE...FOR...THE...CHILD?

[SwinneySwitch]

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[ViLaLuz]

“The abortion business isn’t the place I would expect to find Amnesty International.”

Are you kidding? They’re the essence of the lunatic left.

[Salvation]

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

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4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

[snugs]

I agre it would be difficult to find a more left wing organisation than Amnesty International