Pro-life rock stars 'duped' by Amnesty - anti-torure groups support 4 abortion rights called betraya

[Liberal_in_LA]

Pro-life rock stars 'duped' by Amnesty
Anti-torture group's new support for abortion called betrayal of musicians on fundraising CD

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Posted: August 26, 2007

Amnesty International, which formally announced two weeks ago a new worldwide policy backing women's right to abortion in some cases, is being charged with having "duped" pro-life pop stars who contributed their time and talents to a CD released to raise money by the anti-torture group for victims of violence in Darfur.

"The human suffering going on right now in Darfur is horrific," said Erik Whittington, American Life League's youth outreach director and director of Rock for Life, an organization of anti-abortion musicians.

"To add insult to injury, however, using this tragic abuse of human rights to raise money for a pro-abortion organization is hypocritical and beyond belief," he said.

read full article here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57320

[ComerPerro]

1. once again, conservatives create phony outrage and scandals to condemn liberals and the media

can't wait for the RW spam email version. You know the one, filled with lies and 1/4 truths, then at the end : "Spread this around, because the liberal media won't!". Well, what the conservatives fail to tell you is that the reason the media isn't spreading shit like this around isn't because of any liberal bias, but because it is such a complete lie that even media Bushbots won't touch it.

[lynnertic]

2. It's hard for me to sympathize with Erik Whittington,

but he's just trying to cover someone's butt.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Although, um, the allegedly "pro-life rock stars" aren't the ones doing the actual complaining.

Hmmm. Is Cap'n Shit-For-Brains going to presume to speak for R.E.M., who are also on that CD?

Hey American Life Dude- how about this: "shut up and sing". Oh, except for the "sing" part.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Gee, a right wing rag attacks Amnesty International for defending the rights of rape victims!

What else would you expect, and why do you think spreading their propaganda is helpful?

(edit to add) I guess you must think spreading this crap is helpful is because you agree with it. So the real question is why do you oppose the right of rape victims to choose, and denounce Amnesty International for supporting them? Which do you regard as worse, the right to choose or the goal of ending human rights abuses around the planet? Or is it a toss-up and you are opposed to both?

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. I posted it because of the topic, not cuz I agree. The souce was the first I saw with the topic.

Settle down people.

[saracat]

5. I do NOT see Christina Agilera or Avril Lavigne list as members of this group.. No one well known i...

A member of "Rock for Life" it appears!

[blogslut]

6. Oh please

Anybody that doesn't know what Amnesty International stands for by now is a damned fool. They stand for the rights of all humans and that includes the right for human woman to say, "No, I do not want to be forced to have a child or to submit to sex merely because I am female."

[DemBones DemBones]

7. Read the article. Amnesty started supporting abortion

in cases of rape

The article says "Amnesty's announcement that abortion in cases of rape – a crime too frequent in parts of the world where Amnesty has taken an interest – is a human right came less than two months after release of "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur." Contributing musicians include U2, Green Day, Aguilera, Lavigne and others performing covers of John Lennon tunes."

Rick Whittington is involved with Rock for Life, a pro-life group, and Christina Aguilera and Avrel Lavigne have made statements against abortion. Do you think Amnesty was unaware of all that? Less than two months after the record was released, Amnesty started supporting abortion.

Amnesty announced two weeks ago that they supported abortion in cases of rape. Just rape cases. Now see what they said only a week later:

"Amnesty, this week, issued a response to Bertone, saying the organization 'stands by its policy ... to support the decriminalization of abortion, to ensure women have access to health care when complications arise from abortion and to defend women's access to abortion – within reasonable gestational limits – when their health or life are in danger.' "

In other words, Amnesty now supports abortion on demand. As we have seen since Roe v. Wade, any sort of reason can qualify as "endangering" a woman's health. Like being pregnant itself. There is a small "health risk" involved in any pregnancy, though it's very small in almost all cases. But by such vague standards one could conclude that all babies should be aborted.

Amnesty has betrayed its principles.

[ConsAreLiars]

8. So you oppose Roe vs. Wade

That puts you on thew same side as the author of that smear against AI. So go sign up with NewsMax and send them money. (Really not needed, since they already get funded by corporate fascists, but still, just as a gesture.) Maybe James Dobson, Falwell, and the others as well. Or are you already donating?

[pop goes the weasel]

9. oh good grief

Even in pre-Roe America, abortion was permitted when the life of the mother was on the line. You have a pretty weird idea of what abortion on demand means.

[Mushroom]

10. Bearing False Witness

I'm supposed to believe that you haven't broken the remaining nine principles of your religion for the sake of your pretentious, vain prolife agenda?

[Coexist]

12. about those "statements against abortion" that WERE NOT MADE...

http://feministing.com/archives/007619.html
And what are these "statements" against abortion that Aguilera and Lavigne made?

But Aguilera, 26, is a devout American Catholic. She is reportedly expecting her first child and has taken part in a television show in which she interviewed a teenager who had kept her baby rather than have an abortion.
Lavigne, 22, is a French-Canadian from a tight-knit Christian family. Her song Keep Holding On is the backing track to a pro-life video on YouTube that declares “abortion is murder”.


So because Lavigne's song is used in some random YouTube video, an anti-choice organization can say she's "pro-life?" Same with Aguilera interviewing a teenage mom? Kudos on the reporting. Seriously.

And Aguilera is in the NOW All-Star Celebrity Coalition March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., on April 25

http://march.now.org/coalition.html

So... who exactly on the CD is complaining???

[saracat]

13. They are LYING about Aquilera. She was part of the "March For Women's Lives"

a pro choice tour.

[dsc]

14. Regardless of one's position on abortion

I do think they have a right to be pissed at the last minute change.