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Amnesty International
This page was created on 25 July 2011 and updated on 25 July 2011. Please send any information you may have about this charity to Anthony Ozimic, either by email to news@spuc.org.uk or post to SPUC HQ. For any older information about this charity or other charities, please see the 2006 edition of SPUC's Charities Bulletin.
Amnesty International is one of the world's most prominent human rights organisations.
Amnesty International claims that it is not pro-abortion, but it now campaigns for the decriminalisation of abortion. In an October 2010 reply to a SPUC supporter, Amnesty International said that the organisation had in 2006 defined their policy to "Provide women and men with full information on sexual and reproductive health; Repeal laws criminalizing abortion...Ensure access to abortion services to any woman who becomes preganant as the result of rape, sexual assault or incest, or where a pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's life or a grave risk to her health."
The late Michael Evans, Catholic bishop of East Anglia, England, and a prominent member of Amnesty International, left the organisation in protest at its change of policy to support legal abortion.
Amnesty International has criticised Latin American countries for banning or restricting abortion.
Amnesty International's "Integrated Strategic Plan 2010 to 2016" states that it will work for the "...protection of sexual and reproductive rights and health" (p. 8). SPUC comment: "sexual and reproductive rights and health" is used commonly as either a technical term or a euphemism for abortion on demand.
