Amnesty International is once again promoting pro-abortion ideology by hosting an event championing “abortion providers as human rights defenders”.
Today, Amnesty is hosting an online event titled, “Taking action to safeguard abortion providers as human rights defenders.”
The advocacy group will hold a panel discussion on what measures nations “must adopt to safeguard abortion providers as human rights defenders across the world”.
Advertising its event, Amnesty stated that abortion providers are “Human rights defenders working to protect and promote sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly those involved in providing access to abortions”.
Amnesty defines such “providers” as midwives, doctors, activists, which the organisation claims are being “targeted” around the world.
“They have been exposed to physical and verbal attacks, threats, smears and intimidation, and are criminalized through unjust prosecutions, investigations and arrests”, the event description said.
It also complained that “funding for sexual and reproductive rights and services has also been badly hit by cuts to aid budgets”.
Meanwhile, Amnesty supports the imposition of buffer zones in the UK that have led to the arrests of pro-life Christians who have been arrested, charged and found guilty of praying silently near abortion facilities.
Amnesty refers to itself as “a global movement of more than 10 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all”.
Despite this, the group actively campaigns to ensure that human rights do not extend to unborn babies. In 2020, Amnesty stated that “human rights protections start at birth”.
Last year, the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Stephen Bowen, said that conscientious objection to abortion should not be allowed.
Bowen was responding to an Amnesty report stating that medical professionals who refused to participate in abortions in the Republic of Ireland “frequently invoked conscience clauses”.
“The fact that some health care professionals are refusing to provide a health service on the basis of conscience is unacceptable”, Bowen complained.
Although it was founded by British Catholic convert Peter Benenson in 1961, Amnesty has become increasingly pro-abortion, abandoning its neutral stance in 2007. In 2020, it declared that “full decriminalization of abortion is essential to protect human rights”.
This year, on 10 March, ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s celebrated National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day with a post on X stating it “stand[s] with abortion providers today and every day”.
Its website said: “We celebrate the compassionate, courageous abortion care providers around the country who are fighting for reproductive freedom.”
In 2024, abortion was once again the world’s leading cause of death. The total number of deaths from abortion was 45.1 million unborn babies, according to data sourced from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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