Rights Watch adopts absurd position

Monday, February 08, 2010

IT is an absurdity to promote abortion in the name of human rights when abortion is by definition a denial of the rights of human life before birth.

By what authority does Human Rights Watch interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation? In reality it has no authority. Through their deeply flawed interpretation of human rights, they show themselves to be cultural barbarians who advocate killing infants before birth in the name of "human rights".

In doing so, they degrade the very meaning of human rights. It is clear that abortion subjects human life before birth to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that results in death. By prohibiting such a practice the state is accused by Human Rights Watch of subjecting women to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. This is clearly absurd. Do we want a society where mothers are "free" to kill their children?

Or do we want a society that cares for all human life because it is intrinsically valuable and because all human life has human rights? Do we want an inclusive or an exclusive society?

Who are these self-appointed gurus of human rights to tell us that to kill the preborn human child is a human right when in reality it is the annihilation of human life and the human rights that it has by virtue of its human identity?

Leo Kennedy
Beausite
Rushbrooke
Cobh
Co Cork

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, February 08, 2010