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| 551 |
14 Mar 2007 - 5:50
Paige :
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| 552 |
17 Mar 2007 - 21:18
Betsy Spiering :
I recently joined AI, and am dismayed to learn that you are considering
changing your position of neutrality on the abortion issue. |
| 553 |
19 Mar 2007 - 1:16
Rebecca Hamilton :
I know very well tht there are horrible situations which make abortion seem
a humane solution, but that thinking fails when you realize that what you
are talking about is killing a child. The answer, and it is much harder
than the easy "solution" of abortion, is to give women, even, or
rather especially, women in war-torn countries, extreme poverty or who have
been subjected to heinous crimes against their person, the help they need
to stand on their feet as whole people again, along with their child.
Women are the life-bearers of our race. They should be honored for this;
not punished.
I know this sounds utopian, but it is the only answer consistent with
respect for human life and dignity. It asks much of us, but in the end, it
assures the ultimate worth of all people, everywhere.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Hamilton |
| 554 |
23 Mar 2007 - 22:22
Julie Kulick :
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| 555 |
28 Mar 2007 - 17:39
L. Pallos :
I have been a supporter of AI for many years.
When I was a young child, my family had to flee from ruthless military
repression of religious and civil liberties in Eastern Europe. My uncle
was sentenced to death at a communist show trial. Thank God, he was
ultimately released from prison.
The science is clear: the fetus is not just 'tissue'. The fetus
is a living human being, DISTINCT from her mother. DNA, fingerprints, blood
type, brain-waves, heartbeat, etc ... the proofs of the fetus' humanity
and that she is a unique being are scientifically incontrovertible.
Amnesty should insist on amnesty for the baby girls and boys in the womb.
At the very least AI must not promote abortions, lest it becomes just
another politically biased entity.
AI: protect women’s rights, outside and INside the womb. |
| 556 |
3 Apr 2007 - 23:35
E Maughan :
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| 557 |
16 Apr 2007 - 19:47
Fr. Daniel Berrigan :
My moral conviction on abortion and the rights of the unborn are more
serious than "a point of view" as stated in this petition.
It is as close to my conscience as opposition to war or the death penalty. |
| 558 |
16 Apr 2007 - 23:25
Ed Gaffney :
For decades I have admired and supported and participated in the important
work of Amnesty to protect the unprotected and to defend the most
vulnerable. I count prisoners of conscience, prisoners on death row,
victims of war, and unborn children and their mothers among the least
protected and the most vulnerable in the culture of violence and death. I
hope that Amnesty does not abandon any of these nnedy ones. |
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| 559 |
27 Dec 2007 - 20:28
Evalee Mickey :
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| 560 |
18 Feb 2008 - 17:23
Hilary Miller :
I have given money to AI in the past and support the work you do - but I am
hesitant to continue to ally myself with an organization that thinks
violence can be overcome using the continued violence of abortion. We
should be protecting women all over the world against violence and poverty
- not helping them kill their unborn children. |
| 561 |
18 Feb 2008 - 21:43
Greg Calhoun :
I have been active at the University of Dayton chapter of Amnesty
International until it was disbanded following this policy change. I
disagree with the switch, as you all do such good work. I have seen
various takes on how to interpret the change, but I fail to see how
allowing a wrong like abortion can ever right another wrong, even one as
serious as rape in Darfur. |
| 562 |
15 Jul 2008 - 22:04
Paul Rees :
I support this petition. Although I am staunchly opposed to elective
abortion, unlike some signatories I do accept that abortion may be the
lesser of the two evils in exceptional circumstances (i.e. in cases of rape
or of serious danger to the mother's health). But it can never be meaningly
framed as being a 'right', as this would constitute a 'right to kill'.
The lack of any recognition of the rights of the unborn child, combined
with AI's policy in favour of decriminalisation per se, indicates that
Amnesty have decieded that the unborn child is a 'non-person' and merits no
legal protection. This is quite clearly contrary to the UN Declaration of
the Rights of the Child, a declaration Amnesty claim to endorse. I am also
concerned about the process by which this change has been imposed: a
consultation with the British membership resulted in a majority against the
change whilst at the most recent AGM, the British Chapter approved a policy
in favour of maintaining a neutral stance. Yet these inconvenient facts
have been disregarded and the democratically expressed will of the British
membership has been ignored. |
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