Amnesty backs right to abortion despite church

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Amnesty backs right to abortion despite church
Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:30PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Human rights group Amnesty
International on Friday backed women's right to an
abortion if their lives are in danger or if they have
been raped in a move likely to anger the Catholic Church.

The church, which considers abortion to be murder and
never justified, has urged Catholic organizations to
withdraw their support for Amnesty over the policy. The
Vatican says Amnesty has "betrayed its mission."

At the end of its annual meeting in Mexico City, Amnesty
said it would work to "support the decriminalization of
abortion, to ensure women have access to heath care
when complications arise from abortion and to defend
women's access to abortion ... when their health or
human rights are in danger."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1722688520070818

[I Have A Dream]

1. Yaaaaay Amnesty International! K&R. n/t

[B3Nut]

2. Reality:1 Superstition: 0

Kick for Amnesty Int'l...they seriously rock. The control freaks in funny hats can't become irrelevant fast enough...especially the Hitlerlicious BennyRat.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[zanne]

3. Even before abortion became legal.....

It was socially acceptable for the victims of rape and incest. I think the Pro-Life movement loses alot of people when it declares that ALL abortion is wrong.

[shenmue]

4. The church, meanwhile, bravely defended a woman's right to die from an ectopic pregnancy.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

:dunce:

[ohio2007]

5. Mexico? how are they doing fighting for womens rights in other "third world" countries ?

Amnesty should look into the human rights abuse on a global scale. I don't think they are welcome or supported in areas outside of the first world.

[arcos]

6. Good for them, and for all of us! nt

[AndyTiedye]

7. Amnesty International Just Earned Themselves Another Donation

[IndianaGreen]

8. Amnesty Imternational is talking about abortion for victims of rape in war zones

Rape has become a weapon of war used to terrorize civilian populations into submission. Please recall how the Serbians used rape to destroy Muslim communities in Bosnia. More recently, rape has been used in Africa to punish and terrorize entire populations. AI is fighting the woman-hating Vatican on abortion rights for rape victims in war zones. The male run Vatican feels that women are just baby factories and that victims of rape must be victimized again for the glory of that white male god the Vatican worships.

[demoleft]

9. The Church had already invited good catholics not to support A.I.

...and this months ago.
Well, Ratz has first-hand news, as it seems...