SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Human rights group Amnesty International will be discredited if it pushes for the decriminalization of abortion worldwide, a senior Vatican official said on Wednesday.
London-based Amnesty, founded by Catholic lawyer Peter Benenson in 1961, has begun consulting its 2 million members around the world on whether it should drop its neutral stance on abortion and start pushing countries to repeal laws that make abortion a crime.
"I have great esteem for Amnesty but doing this, they cut off their hands. I hope they don’t do this because if they do, they are disqualified as defenders of human rights," Cardinal Renato Martino told Reuters in an interview during a visit to Singapore.
Martino, who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice and the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, said Amnesty would lose support from Catholic activists if it defined abortion as a human right.
"When they say ‘reproductive rights’, they mean abortion. Do they defend the rights of everybody? No! Not of the unborn because the unborn will be killed," he added.
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unbelievable…
When will these libs understand that there is NO such thing as a ‘pro-choice’ catholic?
They should ‘consider’ discrediting them for ‘considering’ supporting abortion.
I guess it is something like the Susan B. Komen Foundation and their vehement insistence on providing funds to support Planned Parenthood despite conclusive evidence that abortion puts women at greater risk for breast cancer.
Or the March of Dimes and their support for prenatal euthanasia (I wouuld have to check my sources on this one, but I don’t think I am off-base)