Amnesty’s campaign an affront to human rights

Amnesty’s latest campaign is based on the fiction that abortion is a ‘right’ in human rights law. They are wrong

Last week Amnesty International launched a report titled “She is not a criminal: the impact of Ireland’s abortion law”. It calls for the removal of constitutional protection from unborn children on the grounds that there is a human right to abortion.

Amnesty is a very well funded organisation. It has massive global resources for an NGO. And yet on an issue that it should know something about, namely the content of human rights ...