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.
An organization that purports to stand up for the voiceless, powerless and innocent gets on board with the murder of the voiceless, powerless and innocent.
Amnesty International can advocate anything they feel like.
As long as they don't send me the bill...
Abortion as a "human right" is a ghastly bastardization of the term.
What part of "no" don't you understand?
put the gun down, dammit!!
Once again men and boys get a pass.
Why in the world can a birth control pill not be made for men? Certainly they would risk their health, infertility, etc just as women have since the inception of use of birth control pills.
Of all the biological insults women have gotten being the experimental group of choice to determine if this birth control pill or that method was better or worse than any other why have men been given the holy grail of “GO AHEAD—we don’t care what you do, get our women and girls pregnant. That is the prerogative of men, n’est ce pa?”
If there is a hell, you men who have impregnated women (un)willing to risk “it”, you will go to hell...and your patsies will too for killing a human being. It is a horror what we have done. An absolute horror. And it seems we are collectively oblivious. The immorality of it is astounding.
Amnesty International is a communist front!
I see you have had an experience with that communist front known as Amnesty International. I had an experience but it was different from yours.
Crack cocaine is bad, mmkay?
The irony is that the unborn and the issue of abortion makes them the largest group of political prisoners on earth.
A big F.U. to Poland.
The goal is reducing the population to 500 million (hence 95% elimination). Make no mistake, these ARE genocidal racists... against the HUMAN race.
Hence the dilemma. How can abortion be a right if it requires intervention by someone else? It just proves that it cannot possibly be a right. The same for any other “healthcare” service.
Why is it that the super rich are such big advocates of abortion and population control?
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