At the Blognic on Friday, Red Maria alerted the bloggers present to the report which Amnesty is due to publish on Monday, regarding human "rights" for women and girls in Nicaragua.I used to be an enthusiastic supporter of the work of Amnesty International, and even helped to co-ordinate letter-writing campaigns in my parish as part of the Justice & Peace Group. However, when Amnesty decided that it would no longer support the most defenceless and vulnerable people of all, namely the unborn, I was forced to withdraw my support.
Now Amnesty are actively campaigning for abortion to be made legal in Nicaragua under the guise of "human rights"... this means, however, that the unborn children have no rights. By virtue of the fact that they cannot speak for themselves, they are of no importance, nothing more than an inconvenience, and they can therefore be discarded as worthless. But Amnesty used to be the organisation which prided itself on speaking out on behalf of those who could not speak for themselves, those considered worthless and inconvenient by the authorities...
When is a human being not worthy of the right to life...?
I too used to be a supporter of Amnesty until they embraced the culture of death. Like you I can't understand how they can advocate the taking of innocent human life as a 'woman's right.' I know I am preaching to the choir talking to you but how prescient Pope Paul VI was when he declined to accept the majority opinion re contraception. Everything he predicted would happen has happened and more once the link between the unitive and procreative side of marriage was sundered. Can the culture be turned around? Frankly I don't think so and I feel that Our Lady can only stay God's hand for so long and that we are truly in the last days. We, for comfort and convenience are sacrificing our children to Moloch.
ReplyDeleteYes, I too used to be a supporter (and indeed member) of Amnesty International - as a way of trying to help prisoners of conscience. I stopped being a member when the new policy on abortion was adopted. The organisation just seems to have lost its way completely. It's very sad.
ReplyDeleteAgree with all these sentiments. They used to be a worthy organisation with the right ideals and respect for human dignity, then something went badly wrong.
ReplyDeleteHow can you on the one hand hold-up the intrinsic value and dignity of human life for prisoners of conscience for example while on the other you trample those same values underfoot by promoting abortion!
You can't square the circle or burn your candle at both ends. With this development comes the decline into moral relativism which is taking out so many good people these days.
We should pray for Amnesty that they see the edge of the precipice towards which they are heading and have the courage to admit they are wrong and do a U-turn!
We live in such a disposable culture that we concern ourselves more with recycling carrier bags than protecting the vulnerable.
ReplyDeleteHow can Amnesty International pick and chose whose life is valid, either they protect human life or they do not.
We have so many selective supermarket mentality charities that we must inform ourselves of what work they are doing before we part with our money.
SPUC have a good booklet on charities and what they support and stand for.
I never got sucked into AI in the first place, because they were against any use of the death penalty.
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