The danger of making abortion a ‘human right’
There was never any mention of a right to kill in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. But Amnesty International is trying to persuade its members that human rights have evolved to the point that a right to kill does in fact exist.
This week Amnesty’s Canadian section is holding its annual general meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and over the next few days will become the latest of the 72 branches around the world to decide whether to drop its neutral policy on abortion in favour of one that would enshrine a woman’s right to choose as a universal ‘sexual and reproductive right’. Amnesty’s traditional neutral position was based on the charity’s belief that ‘there is no generally accepted right to abortion in international human rights law’.
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