Dear Editor,
In adopting a formal policy in favour of abortion at its recent meeting in Mexico, Amnesty International has betrayed the vision of its founders, and the organisation no longer deserves to be described as a human rights organisation. Those members of Amnesty International who respect human life should immediately resign from Amnesty in protest at this controversial policy.

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, 'Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.' The right to life is the most basic and important human right, without it all other rights are meaningless. Abortion is not a human right; it is a human wrong because it is the direct and deliberate taking of an innocent, defenceless human life.

Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International after reading about two students who were jailed in fascist Portugal for drinking a toast to liberty. Just as the reaction to that injustice lead to the formation of Amnesty in 1961; hopefully the reaction of right thinking people throughout the world to Amnesty's controversial pro death policy in 2007 will lead to the formation of a new international human rights organisation, which will defend the basic human rights of all human life, both born and unborn.

Yours faithfully,
Mairtin O' Maolruaidh
Polkeen,
Tuam Road,
Galway

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