Amnesty International’s current campaign for the decriminalisation of abortion in Ireland and Malta is further proof that the organisation is no longer a human rights defender.
Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
Abortion is a violation of human rights because it involves the direct and deliberate taking of an innocent human life.
The right to life is the most basic and important human right because without it all other rights are meaningless.
Amnesty International would better serve humanity in general, and women’s rights in particular, if they worked to ensure that the right to life of all human beings, whether born or unborn, is upheld under both national and international law.