I don’t want to restart the Catholic torture debates, but it all comes down to how you define torture.
Well when they start defining it this way, every good Catholic needs to be FOR torture.
Wesley Smith reports that the U.N. wants to define pro-life laws as torture. Yes. NOT killing babies is torture.
[The report] brands with that extreme term not only medical actions and omissions that clearly are not torture as most people understand it, but also national policies disfavored by the international ruling class. Thus, “The Committee against Torture has repeatedly expressed concerns about restrictions on access to abortion and about absolute abortion bans as violating the prohibition on torture and ill treatment.” Unstated (but implied) is that pro-life countries like Ireland are committing crimes against humanity.
Progressives cannot stomach real debate, so they try to define any disagreement as a violation of human rights. They have been using this method with regard to ‘gay rights’ for years. If you think marriage is one thing and not another, you are against human rights. So now if you think that unborn babies have rights and need and deserve protection, you are a torturer.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that those who actively promote unspeakable evil will redefine the language to make good evil.
That said, redefining the protection of innocent human life as torture seems outrageous even for them.
So be it. I will stand against human rights until every baby is safe.
March 25, 2013 at 3:56 am
This was just something some guy from a UN bureaucratic agency said in a speech. Whatever! Stop worrying about "progressives" and start worrying about how to end abortions. Is the goal to end abortions or to win arguments?
March 25, 2013 at 4:01 am
Florida
You have some nerve.
March 25, 2013 at 5:06 am
Justice is predicated on intent. Any law can be broken to save a life. Now, to save a life, the law is for man, not man for the law. Yes, Man can torture to save a life, not to end a life or to allow a life to end. To say that life is torture, may be so, but only to save a life may a man act.
March 25, 2013 at 8:40 am
IS THIS FOR REAL??? Had to go to the built in horse hockey detector for a reading. Yep, the Offal O'Meter was on "RED ALERT"!!!!
SOCIOPATHIC, POWER ELITIST UNITED NATIONS….Yet again, another knife strike from a different angle to their putrid, stinking, rotten, hanging corpse in the room!!!
Does anyone not know they are about "99" cents short of a dollar!!!
OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!! You can't make this STUFF UP!
AS A CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL, HOW COULD ANYONE THINK WE WOULD BUY SUCH DEMENTED "CR@P"!!!!
As a proud mom of an adult daughter with Down's Syndrome,
"I TOO STAND "AGAINST" HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL EVERY BABY IS SAVED!!!!!!…….by their definition, of course……..battle tested and conflict ready……BVM is wearing combat boots…..looks like it's going to get really dirty…….I'm with her!!!
March 25, 2013 at 10:27 am
Don't accept their abuse of language and false premises. Don't let them fraudulently define reality. This is about desensitisation.
March 25, 2013 at 12:26 pm
We need a rallying tag against this revisionism of moral law. Abortion IS Torture seems apt.
March 25, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Not finished yet!!!!
THE POWER ELITE UN REALLY HAS A SCREW LOOSE!
The oppositonal, spin doctoring, word smiths!!!
LET'S TURN THEM ON THEIR OWN RUSTY TIN EAR!
If they truly believe what they preach, let THEM take a bite of their own poisoned apple and sip from their own disgusting cup!!!!
These people are the worst cowards!!!
Wastrels, looters, thieves, murderers, PEDOPHILES!!!!
Acting with impunity and all with no accountability and no oversight!!!!
HUMMMMM…….Sounds like a certain Prez… I know! !!!
March 25, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Many of us with the 40 Days for Life expect that our right to assemble peacefully and pray will be taken just as our other liberties are being taken and the constitution shredded.
We have to be 100 ft from the door so we cannot give any information on alternatives to those who are thinking of killing their unborn child. And a policeman accepts blood money to protect the holocaust.
We are prepared to pay a price…and stay in a state of grace.
March 26, 2013 at 2:47 am
This sounds like extremism, but 10 yrs ago, so was some of the stuff being enshrined into laws this last election cycle. This Orwellian newspeak is dangerous and I can only fathom the world they are trying to engineer.
March 26, 2013 at 7:46 pm
This is absolutley insane, I never thought the pro-abortion lobby would go this far. However given that the US doesen't abide by the convention on torture, and gladly torture & humiliates humans, in gitmo and at black sites around the world, all without any serious objection from the american people, i don't see any reason why they should abide by this new adition.