Amnesty arbeider aktivt for fri abort

I en artikkel jeg leste onsdag, går det fram at Amnesty International planlegger å forandre sitt syn på abort. I sine interne dokumenter sier Amnesty nå: Amnesty International’s International Executive Committee (IEC) has adopted a new position on Sexual and Reproductive Rights that includes support for abortion in very particular circumstances, in the context of our work to stop grave human rights abuses against women and girls.

The new policy has three basic goals: (1) provide access to abortion in what they claim will only be “particular circumstances,” (2) ensure that women have access to medical care after botched—whether legal or illegal—abortions, and (3) eliminate all penalties against women seeking abortions and against abortion providers.

Det er det tredje punktet her som er det vanskeligste/farligste. Man vil arbeide for at utførte aborter ikke skal straffes noe sted, og i sine bakgrunnsdokumenter nevnes det også at abort må legaliseres. Det er vanskelig å se at dette standpunktet betyr noe annet enn at Amnesty International nå vil arbeide aktivt for fri abort over hele verden. Dette er selvsagt ganske kontroversielt, og Amnesty har derfor så langt ikke ønsket å gå aktivt ut med den nye politikken, men diskuterer den internt.

Amnesty mener at de ikke har noe syn på når livet begynner, og at de respekterer alle religiøse meninger om livet. Men artikkelen jeg leste avsluttes slik: Amnesty International, of course, ultimately does take a position on the question of when life begins: Life does not begin—at least not in a way that merits the advocacy of Amnesty International—until after birth. The organization’s leadership deludes itself if it thinks its new support for an unlimited abortion license doesn’t undermine the solidarity once enjoyed among all those working to end human suffering. And that’s reason for all champions of human rights to be saddened by the “news” coming from Amnesty International today.

LES HELE ARTIKKELEN I FIRST THINGS HER.