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UN Urged to Tell Catholic Church it Has No Right to Oppose Abortion
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 8, 2014 - 1:50 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholic; un; vatican
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This is not nice to say- But why are those vehmently for abortion usually a woman who would still be left alone in a bar at closing time, or could not stir interest when being dumped in the middle of an all-male prison?


41 posted on 05/09/2014 8:06:48 PM PDT by hearthwench (Debbi - Mom, NaNa, and always ornery)
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I like this part: 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.
42 posted on 05/10/2014 12:33:35 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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they know they are full of crap


43 posted on 05/10/2014 12:39:34 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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United Nations Committee Against Torture promotes the killing of nascent, human life — so Orwellian, so unexpected...

Christianity is a threat to these deranged elitists.


44 posted on 05/10/2014 2:06:42 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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