Amnesty International U.K. votes to support some abortion rights.IN MARCH, MEMBERS OF THE United Kingdom branch of Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of voted at their annual conference in Edinburgh to include access to safe, legal abortion in the list of rights that Amnesty supports and advocates for globally. The vote is the latest in a consultation by Amnesty International to gauge the will of its members on the issue; until now, the organization has maintained a neutral stance with respect to abortion access. While some conservative Catholics sought to suggest that the move to support abortion rights would be unpopular among Catholics, that sentiment was not reflected in the final vote. The majority of Catholics support access to safe, legal abortion and family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. services and, to give just one example, more than half of all Catholics in the U.K. believe that abortion is acceptable in cases of fetal fetal /fe·tal/ (fe´tal) of or pertaining to a fetus or the period of its development. fe·tal adj. Of, relating to, or being a fetus. abnormality abnormality /ab·nor·mal·i·ty/ (ab?nor-mal´i-te) 1. the state of being abnormal. 2. a malformation. ab·nor·mal·i·ty n. . |
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