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Amnesty International will defy Vatican pressure on abortion August 13, 2007
Amnesty International plans to support abortion services for rape victims in Darfur, in spite of strong protests from the Vatican, the British Independent newspaper reports.
In June Cardinal Renato Martino, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, scolded Amnesty International for a "pro-abortion about-turn," and encouraged Catholic donors to reconsider their support for the group. Episcopal conferences in several countries, including the US, soon joined in a campaign to reverse Amnesty's policy change.
Representatives of Amnesty International, however, held firmly to their position that legal abortion is an appropriate remedy for a "pandemic of violence against women." In Darfur particularly, the organization argues, access to abortion is essential because mass rapes have become a part of the brutal warfare there.
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