Amnesty falls victim to ‘distorted rationale’

I WISH to commend the Vatican and, more recently, Catholic Bishop Michael Evans of East Anglia for condemning Amnesty International’s pro-abortion policy. Amnesty has fallen victim to a distorted rationale that tends to place a higher priority on human suffering than on life itself.

Contrary to Amnesty’s new position, human welfare depends upon a shared responsibility that involves moral limits. There are no ‘small’ murders. When man’s conscience loses respect for life as something sacred, he inevitably ends by losing his own identity.

While the term ‘choice’ may sound democratic, the person who opts for abortion is neglecting to consider the fundamental right to life of the mother’s unborn foetus.

We must help those who are suffering, but we may not use a good end to justify an evil means. Human beings are not raw material to be exploited or a commodity that can be bought and sold.

To claim the right to abortion, and to recognise that right in law, is to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others.

This is the death of true freedom.

Paul Kokoski

234 Columbia Drive

Hamilton

Ontario

Canada