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Posted on 08/14/2007 2:14:10 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard
London, Aug. 13, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Amnesty International plans to support abortion services for rape victims in Darfur, in spite of strong protests from the Vatican, the British Independent newspaper reports.
In June Cardinal Renato Martino (bio - news), the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, scolded Amnesty International for a "pro-abortion about-turn," and encouraged Catholic donors to reconsider their support for the group. Episcopal conferences in several countries, including the US, soon joined in a campaign to reverse Amnesty's policy change.
Representatives of Amnesty International, however, held firmly to their position that legal abortion is an appropriate remedy for a "pandemic of violence against women." In Darfur particularly, the organization argues, access to abortion is essential because mass rapes have become a part of the brutal warfare there.
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Legal abortion is a continuation of the “pandemic of violence against women.”
Time to kiss off Amnesty Int’l.
And also, it would come in handy in the USA in case anybody wants to off an inconvenient kid at 8 1/2 months or so. These people are sick and evil. Enough of their "compassion" for the "downtrodden"!
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Yep, answer violence with more violence. How about holding the blue helmets accountable for their actions?
How come they aren’t screaming about the causes and who’s doing it?
I cut them off a while ago.
So no amnesty for innocent babies eh? Can’t get any lower than that.
Th hell of it all, is that AI says that in these woman-demeaning cultures, women who have been raped are regarded as “damaged goods,” shunned, insulted and unmarrageable; “therefore,” they must be able to conceal the results of rape by killing off the babies in secret.
However, the larger truth of it is, any culture that demeans women, demeans the fruit of her womb at the same time, and vice-versa. In other words, if an unborn baby is just garbage, then a woman is just a garbage-bearer. If a woman is just “damaged goods,” then the baby is fit for the junk-heap. The status of both rises or falls together.
You have to value them both as unique human beings; otherwise, both will be trashed together.
The true solution to the wartime rape problem (I mean in addition to protecting the women and meting out justice to the perpetrators which is swift, sharp, and certain) -— is to love them both; to embrace both the child, and the woman whose body already embraces him.
You are correct. Respecting mother and child is such a basic neccesity that a civil and just society cannot exist without this love.
Amnesty International is just another in a series of organiztions committed to the culture of death and the destruction of Western culture. We are already paying the price for it in the form of broken homes and all manner of sin eminating from such homes. Sad to say.
“mass rapes have become a part of the brutal warfare there”
so now we can add mass murder to the list.
Why is this news? I'm sure the Vatican doesn't care. I don't either.
Incidentally, I have defied Amnesty International's opinions, pressures and suggestions totally and continuously.
It's been effortless.
Should I call the AP?
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I was with Amnesty International years ago. Then, the leadership insisted that every local group support three “Prisoners of Conscience” (victims of political or religious persecutions): one from the “First World” (the developed and prosperous West); one from the “Second World” (victims of Communist regimes); and one from the “Third World” (a poor and underdeveloped nation.)
Local AI groups could not pick-and-choose which “Prisoners of Conscience” to support. AI defended the basic human rights of ALL.
This makes their present support of abortion without limit-— abortion at any time, by any person, for any reason — particularly disgusting.
To take the hardest case: women impregnated by rape in wartime. Surely they need sanctuary and unstinting practical help and quite possibly a large-scale adoption program for their babes; but surely that “help” must not consist of making their bodies the target of another violent attack so that their helpless babies will be butchered.
How can an organization which opposes the death penalty even for the rapist, insist upon it for the child? This child, like its mother, is an innocent human being. The most fundamental human right is the right to simply go on living.
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