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Amnesty International; ; abortion policy
Topic Started: Tuesday, 28. August 2007, 12:56 (129 Views)
Clare	Thursday, 13. September 2007, 12:24 Post #16
Wacko Schismatic Traditionalist Woman Posts: 3,083 Group: Members Member #70 Joined: March 27, 2007	John Sweeney Sep 13 2007, 01:06 PM Clare That is encouraginlgy pragmatic of you! I can be when it suits me!
	S.A.G. My attempt at a blog.


KatyA	Friday, 21. September 2007, 18:18 Post #17
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	Quote: Amnesty International’s abortion reversal is causing a reaction that is larger than the group may have believed possible. The head of the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne, Australia, Mr. Stephen Elder, has urged all 328 of the archdiocese’s schools to sever their connections to the human rights group. The article goes on Quote: Abortion is a fundamental denial of the dignity of the human person and a breach of the human rights of the child," Mr. Elder said in a statement. Amnesty’s policy change is seen by many as a betrayal of its founding, since it was a Catholic layman, Peter Benenson who established the group in 1961. Up until this past month, Amnesty International maintained a position of neutrality on abortion, saying that the issue was outside its mandate. One school that has withdrawn its support from AI, emphasized this point by founding a new human rights group called the Benenson Society so that they could continue to carry out the original vision of the founder Catholic News Agency More on the Benenson Society Here



KatyA	Tuesday, 16. October 2007, 13:14 Post #18
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	I spotted a letter in the Catholic Herald a couple of weeks ago, inviting former Amnesty International Supporters to join Action by Christians Against Torture ACAT (UK) The group campaigns against "torture, threat of torture,disappearances and extra judicial executions" A narrower remit than AI. The letter writer went on to say "ACAT(UK) has no policy on abortion and would endanger its charitable status if it worked in that field." According to their website the aims are: - to work as Christians, for the abolition of torture worldwide - to increase awareness of the widespread and evil use of torture - to campaign for its total abolition - to be a POWER HOUSE of Prayer I must admit I had not previously heard of this organisation. Does anyone know any more about it? KatyA



KatyA	Monday, 19. November 2007, 00:02 Post #19
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	The Telegraph reports that a letter signed by Archbishop Vincent Nichols has been sent out to schools and parishes concerning membership of Amnesty International Quote: But more than 2,000 secondary and primary schools have been sent a letter from bishops telling them membership of Amnesty is "problematic". The letter, signed by the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, was also sent to more than 5,000 Catholic parishes to tell priests they could no longer host church-based Amnesty International groups. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...namnesty117.xml KatyA



Em.	Monday, 19. November 2007, 09:48 Post #20
Posts: 757 Group: Members Member #69 Joined: March 24, 2007	Amnesty International does superb work. Is this bishop right to comdem it ad hoc? could not he at least limit his wanrning?
	Divine Mercy http://www.tinyurl.com/29p3vk


KatyA	Monday, 19. November 2007, 22:47 Post #21
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	According to a report in today's Guardian the head of AI in the UK says that the Bishops' objections and high profile resignations have made little difference to membership of Amnesty International. Guardian Unlimited Amnesty do excellent work, but they did not have to betray their founder's principles by supporting abortion, instead of remaining neutral. KatyA



KatyA	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 16:06 Post #22
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	CNA Amnesty International has continued its promotion of abortion with a report on the state of human rights which criticizes Poland for denying Polish women “access to abortion.” The organization’s actions could reflect its partnership with a pro-abortion group to redefine abortion as a “human right.” more from CNA and from C-Fam



Deleted User	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 16:41 Post #23
Deleted User	I think it tragic that Amnesty International has lost its direction. I was, as I suspect many of you were a great supporter of their work. As secretary to the our branch of the NUS (National Union of Students) in the late 70's, while studying Hotel and Catering management, I resigned when out of the blue I received leaflets from National HQ. These stated that the NUS backed a woman’s right to choose and Troops out of Northern Ireland. I was not sure which annoyed me most the causes I was being asked to back or the fact that the NUS had been high jacked by a professional leadership who were peddling a political agenda that did nothing for the welfare of the student's they were meant to represent. I was subject to harassment and told I was no longer entitled to student discounts or railcards and many other benefits the NUS claimed were perks of membership of their Union. Fortunately I had friends who were studying law and they were able to ensure that my rights as a student were respected and were not dependent upon my membership of the Union. I think that a similar takeover of the leadership has occurred with Amnesty International and it sickens me that what was once a powerful voice for the rights of prisoners, such as those detained in Guantanamo Bay, has been discredited and split and have serious suspicions that the very people who benefit from imprisoning the innocent are being served by the deviation in policy and principles now corrupting Amnesty International. It could not be defeated from without so it is being corrupted from within. There is a lesson for the church and indeed all Christians here.
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PJD	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 19:33 Post #24
Posts: 2,416 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: September 26, 2006	"It could not be defeated from without so it is being corrupted from within. There is a lesson for the church and indeed all Christians here." Point taken Penfold. One consolation for the Catholic Church however lies in its existence as the Mystical Body of Christ, and thus however dark the clouds may be Our Blessed Lord will only stay His hand for a while against the foe. PJD



Quicunque vult	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 20:09 Post #25
Posts: 484 Group: Members Member #86 Joined: May 18, 2007	Seems extraordinary how concern for freedom of conscience turns into a "right" to kill the unborn - the devil's logic at work there. QV



CARLO	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 22:30 Post #26
Posts: 1,687 Group: Members Member #27 Joined: September 28, 2006	Yes a great shame that an effective group like AI should have taken on this pro-abortion baggage. De profundis Out of the depths CARLO
	Judica me Deus


Deleted User	Monday, 29. June 2009, 07:16 Post #27
Deleted User	Quote: One consolation for the Catholic Church however lies in its existence as the Mystical Body of Christ, and thus however dark the clouds may be Our Blessed Lord will only stay His hand for a while against the foe. PJD
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KatyA	Saturday, 22. August 2009, 13:14 Post #28
Administrator Posts: 5,391 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	Fiorella Nash owes the release of her father from prison in Malta in the 1970s to Amnesty International. For Nash, supporting the organization over the years was a given, but recently she decided to suspend her support because of group's pro-abortion agenda. According to the website Religion Confidencial, “Fiorella Nash owes her father’s life to Amnesty International. For many years she worked with the NGO until she became aware of its pro-abortion slant.” Since its founding by Catholic British lawyer Peter Benenson, Amnesty has been one of the human rights groups that was most supported by Catholic and Protestant believers in the United Kingdom. When August 2007 rolled around, Amnesty raised the ire of some of its strongest supporters by revealing its intention to campaign for access to abortion. The decision to move from not having a position on abortion to campaigning for it led bishops and lay people around the world to withdraw their membership from the organization, calling the abortion agenda a betrayal of the group's founding principles. “Amnesty has focused its most recent campaign on the government of Nicaragua, accusing it of being responsible for the deaths of pregnant adult and teen women because of its laws against abortion,” the website reported. According to Nash, who works at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, she cannot support Amnesty because of its pro-abortion agenda. “Its conferences on the issue only include pro-abortion speakers, there is no open debate on the issue,” she said. Nash was pregnant when Amnesty publicly revealed its pro-abortion slant. “I was pregnant with my first son and I thought, ‘When my father was in a defenceless situation I helped him. What am I doing now to help the equally defenceless unborn?’ CNA This stance by someone who has benefited from Amnesty's actions in the past ought to send a very clear message to its current leaders. Let's hope they take notice



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