Why is Vatican trying to destroy Amnesty International after it's abortion decision?

Question

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21904009-2703,00.html

Sentinel:"Amnesty International’s position is not for abortion as a right but for women’s human rights to be free of fear, threat and coercion as they manage all consequences of rape and other grave human rights violations," Gilmore of Amnesty International claimed.

Answer 1

Conform and control is their mission (the churches).

Answer 2

I've been wondering about how promoting/believing that God gave us free will jibes with some groups desire to impose their particular dogma on people. Even more telling to me is their refusal to support access to birth control. It really seems not so much a defense of life as a wish to dictate the terms of life for others. I do feel that it is their right to support or not support what they choose but Amnesty International is involved in many positive programs and works and this is just a small part of Amnesty International's work in making the world a better place. I agree this won't have much affect since they weren't supporting them anyway. I continue to support the efforts of groups like Amnesty International and women's rights to self determination over their own bodies and life choices even if they make different decisions than I would.

Answer 3

Because Amnesty International seeks to stand up to the evil caused by Medieval family planning values of the Vatican.

Ignore for the moment all the arguments about the Catholic Church being pro-life and pro-humanity. Let us look at the real facts rather than the spin of Catholic apologists, pr merchants and "spin"doctors:

+ Millions of people have died in Africa because of AIDS and in part because the Catholic Church not only does not support contraception but has actively undermined community programs to promote "safe sex";

+ Millions more girls are raped and sodomized in many Catholic countries where women are considered "less" than men, yet the Catholic Church still refuses to recognize women as equal in all aspects, esepcially spiritually and refuses priests to marry.

+ All species of nature show from time to time the choice to abort or bring to full term their babies- human beings should be no different- it should be a choice- a serious and planned choice, not a moral battlefield.

+ Of course, there is 2000 years of evil by the Vatican in which they are singularly responsible for the worse cases of genocide, murder, slavery and crimes against humanity
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/evil/evil_0200.htm

I'll leave it up to you and your readers to decide who has greater moral authority, an organization dedicated to evil but claiming to be good, or an organization singularly dedicated to ending evil in all its forms.

Answer 4

I think it is a bit strong to say that the Vatican is trying to destroy Amnesty International, it is just and right for the church to withdraw any support for an organization that promotes killing the unborn as life is sacred to the church, and this means yours and mine regardless of our color or creed, this is a very strong moral issue in the church that is against it`s very nature and it cannot do less than withdraw from Amnesty, as a Catholic I will not be giving any type of support to A.I as I see it as being hypocritical in it`s message.

Answer 5

They don't like it when anyone threatens their power. I think that catholics who have a conscience will ignore this crap, just as they always do.

One interesting thing is this paragraph from the article:

"Amnesty Italy promptly said it did not receive any Vatican or Catholic Church funding anyway."

And this:

"In 1996 the Catholic Church took a similar measure in cutting off aid to the United Nations childrens' fund UNICEF, also accused of promoting abortion.

"UNICEF was distributing in refugee camps around the world a post-intercourse spermicide for young women or teenage girls who had been raped.

"Vatican aid to UNICEF totalled 2,000 dollars a year."

Answer 6

Because, with the brief exception of the enlightenment of Vatican II, under John, the Catholic Church has become increasingly reactionary and deaf to prevalent shifts in social attitudes, rendering itself more irrelevant and out of touch all the time. What would you expect from a body controlled by (allegedly) celibate, single old men?

Answer 7

The Catholic Church isn't trying to destroy AI.

It's trying to make clear that Catholics have absolutely no business supporting an organization that promotes the destruction of innocent human life ... in or out of the womb ... and that is what AI is doing ... no matter how they try to "spin" it.

Amnesty's position is pure double talk and political nonsense.

They claim to stand for the rights of all, but they willingly abandon the weakest and the least powerful, in order to further their own goals.

They should be ashamed of themselves .. and so should you.

Answer 8

I don't know that they are trying to destroy Amnesty International, as much as trying to have integrity with the church's stance on abortion. I suspect it won't have much effect.

Answer 9

Because if you disagree with a Vatican policy or papal bull, you are the devil incarnate. They'll squash you like a bug.