do you think abortion should be available to rape victims???

i do...the vatican does not...

for the longest time amnesty international took no position on the issue...but 3 years ago the world's largest grassroots human rights organization undertook a long term campaign to stop violence against women...in the process it drew many new activists into action under its name...and amnesty international is a hyper-democratic organization...

and when these (mostly) women joined together with long-time amnesty member-activists the push for a formal position, not on abortion but on specific aspects of women's healthcare issues as relates to human rights concerns, began to rise up from - the grassroots...

and at its international council meeting held in mexico last week, amnesty international's leaders committed the organization to strengthening its work on the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and other factors contributing to women's recourse to abortion and overwhelmingly affirmed the organization's policy on selected aspects of abortion...

which led to this past monday when the vatican's secretary of state, tarcisio bertone, commented on amnesty international's policy on sexual and reproductive rights -- including on selected aspects of abortion -- and said that the view of the vatican is that abortion should not be available to rape victims...

in think this whole dialogue between amnesty international and the vatican is fascinating...i strongly recommend you click here to read amnesty's response to the vatican (which includes some of how ai came to its position and what it learned in doing the research) and then read more about amnesty international's work on sexual and reproductive rights by clicking here...

then tell me what you think...me and the posse want to know!

peace out <3