Fiorella Nash
Posted on 08/22/2009 1:32:51 PM PDT by NYer
.- The British woman Fiorella Nash owes the release of her father from prison in Malta in the 1970s to Amnesty International. For Nash, supporting the organization over the years was a given, but recently she decided to suspend her support because of group's pro-abortion agenda.
According to the website Religion Confidencial, “Fiorella Nash owes her father’s life to Amnesty International. For many years she worked with the NGO until she became aware of its pro-abortion slant.”
Since its founding by Catholic British lawyer Peter Benenson, Amnesty has been one of the human rights groups that was most supported by Catholic and Protestant believers in the United Kingdom. When August 2007 rolled around, Amnesty raised the ire of some of its strongest supporters by revealing its intention to campaign for access to abortion.
The decision to move from not having a position on abortion to campaigning for it led bishops and lay people around the world to withdraw their membership from the organization, calling the abortion agenda a betrayal of the group's founding principles.
“Amnesty has focused its most recent campaign on the government of Nicaragua, accusing it of being responsible for the deaths of pregnant adult and teen women because of its laws against abortion,” the website reported.
According to Nash, who works at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, she cannot support Amnesty because of its pro-abortion agenda. “Its conferences on the issue only include pro-abortion speakers, there is no open debate on the issue,” she said.
Nash was pregnant when Amnesty publicly revealed its pro-abortion slant. “I was pregnant with my first son and I thought, ‘When my father was in a defenseless situation I helped him. What am I doing now to help the equally defenseless unborn?’”
Ping!
Very good! Amnesty International originally did some good things, but in the last 20 years or so, they seem to have become wedded to the leftist program.
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Good. They’ve been way to the left for a long time. And they were pro-abortion, I’m sure, but just didn’t say so openly until now. I hope they bleed a lot of members and contributors.
A bit like the liberal American Catholic Church and their universities like the pro-abortion scum at Notre Dame.
A brave and good woman. She has my respect for speaking out about this!
Good for her!
Why should Amnesty have any stance on abortion? What has that to do with countering worldwide legal injustice (which is what it was formed to do?)
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