Should the UN criminalize the Pro-life Movement as torture?
My dad and I were listening to the American Center for Law and Justice on the radio as we were driving home a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't surprised when I heard that the Center for Reproductive Rights wrote a letter to the UN to criminalize Pro Life movement. Basically, if you speak out against abortion, it will be a crime as torture.
http://aclj.org/united-nations/will-un-criminalize-the-pro-life-movement-as-torture
To me this is ridiculous! Speaking out against something is labeled as torture?! What is this world coming to?
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Your source is innacurate, but as framed as wide as the debate is I will say no. The CRR sent a letter to the UN about the Holy See, not against the pro life movement. The CRR is asking for the church to not but in on a persons medical needs as the church are not medical doctors. I would wonder why the ACLJ is framing this as against the pro life movement and not against the Holy See though. An assault on one thing does not necessarily translate to other things loosely related to it. While the pro life movement is mainly a religious movement the Catholic Church is not the movement. Side: No
Here is a link to some of their claims against the Holy See for the UN. Their claims stem from clerics who sexually abused people as well as the reproductive issues the Holy See oposed that endangered womens lives. Yes they are seeking for the UN to rule their evidence as examples of torture, but this is not as the ACLJ claims unless the anti abortion movement is also part of the Holy See's actions in protecting from legal actions their priests who are sexual predators. If I get bored I may track down the full letter to the UN....but I would have to be reeeaaally bored for that. Side: Yes
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