Today I cancel my membership of AI. I have sent them an email:
Sir,
Membership: 19912/524
Following the adoption of a policy supporting the right to abortion, I must cancel my membership. I have already cancelled my regular donations to Amnesty.
I took part in the consultation on the matter but I see that members’ views have been ignored. This is a sad day; I have been a member of AI since I was at school in the late 1980s. I joined an organisation campaigning for human rights, not a political agenda. The protection of unborn children is as much a legitimate object of government concern as the protection of children who have been born.
I have read the press release making the bizarre distinction between supporting the right to abortion and supporting a woman’s right to choose abortion, so please don’t bother me with that one. I am a published moral philosopher and I can understand English.
Yours,
Joseph Shaw
This is sad.
ReplyDeleteI knew Amnesty had lost any moral compass when I urged them to speak out over the murder of Terri Schiavo. In some kind of Eupho-English they informed me that as Terri was disabled there was no discrimination going on.
I wrote back explaining my own disability and asking if I had now lost my own right to life-to which I received no reply.
Amnesty have bought into the 'life unworthy of life' line.
God bless