(Not so) pro-life vid of day: Amnesty Int’l hires artist to promote abortion, contraception
by Kelli
From the Huffington Post comes the background on this video:
Artist Hikaru Cho uses her body painting expertise to create incredible realistic effects which make it appear her models’ skin is peeled back, in an effort to highlight rights and empowerment….
Now the Tokyo-based student has been commissioned by Amnesty International to prepare new designs for its My Body My Rights campaign, which emphasizes sexual and reproductive rights….
Cho – a Chinese-born artist who studies visual communication and design in Japan – has… illustrated the right to contraception and sexual health by depicting a strip of pills embedded in an arm, and the right to choose a partner by painting a face to show what appears to be two men kissing.
In one she depicts the right to choose when you have children with a keyhole in a model’s stomach and in another she highlights the right to live without sexual violence by showing a face emerging from a cracked shell, representing the emotional scars.
Cho said: “I hope my art can help young people across the world start a conversation about those rights.”
In the past several months, LifeNews has noted an apparent shift in Amnesty International’s worldwide mission. In December of last year, J.C. von Krempach wrote that while the organization still “uses the imagery of its earlier days” of helping political prisoners, their focus has changed:
It has given up its initial focus on prisoners of conscience; instead it is now promoting a so-called “holistic” view of human rights that squares well with the controversial social agenda of the UN and its specialized agencies. The cornerstone of this new agenda are so-called “sexual and reproductive rights”, which in the UN newspeak is a code word for promoting abortion, artificial conception, homosexuality, homosexual “parenting”, etc.
In other words, Amnesty is now part of the abortionist/homosexualist lobby, and occasional campaigns in favour of political prisoners only serve the purpose of polishing the organization’s nimbus.
Your thoughts?
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As the saying goes : “You can put lipstick on a pig – but it’s still a pig”.
I think that applies here.
Too bad, they used to be a good organization.
Another one bites the dust . . .
Abortion doesn’t lock a baby out of a womb, only abstinence can do that. We consider chastity belts misogynistic and barbaric. Moving that image upward doesn’t un kill a human being who is destroyed by abortion. No human has the right to use their desire for consequence-free sex as an excuse to abort their human child.
We are mammals. We have a parent-child relationship with each and every conceived human being. Abortion does not un-make that relationship, and clever art won’t make it less true.
Shouldn’t she be concerned about the heartbreaking, massive violations of human rights and political prisoners concerning the issue of abortion in the land of her birth? Were she to still live in China, I think she might think “starting conversations” about that might be the more dire need.
Chris. Nailed it.
Why are these people so obsessed with abortion? Seriously. It truly is sickening!
Why are these people obsessed with abortion? Why does it get worked into every issue and public health effort? Why try to give abortion a make-over, turning it into healthcare when it does not serve to prevent or treat any known disease?
Without a recognition and acknowledgement of God, we humans are drawn to thinking we are God, and recreating everything God has done, and recreating all of His instruction.
@ The Last Democrat — Thanks for your answer, but remember there are so-called “religious” people that support abortion, even “Christian” abortionists.
It seems like this country — and much of the world — has lost its moral compass.
AI is all about freeing people from tyranny, exploitation and suppression. The denial of womens reproductive rights and freedoms falls into that category.
“Why are these people so obsessed with abortion?” – I don’t think they are, it’s just one of many areas on which they focus attention. Why are you?
Yes, forced abortions in China and sex selection abortions of females really advance women’s rights.
I don’t obsess about anything except maybe the Eagles, and training camp is months away :-0
Yes, forced abortions are a travesty. In the case of China it’s a political thing under a communist regime. Voluntary abortions are a different matter.
So you aren’t active in the anti-choice movement?
No one’s lost any ‘moral compass’, it’s just that yours doesn’t rule any more.
Voluntary abortions are also a travesty. An individual member of the human species (otherwise known as a human being to everyone except “Reality”) is purposefully killed = travesty.
Ah, you too have failed to read what I write rather than what you think I write Lrning. I have repeatedly stated that a human woman’s fetus is of the human species. I have never said otherwise.
Voluntary abortions are not a travesty, seeking to deny womens reproductive rights and freedom is.
We don’t “fail to read” what you write.
We actively avoid reading what you write. It’s a “choice” thing.
Postscript: You are blind to the reality of the child. That is why your posts are irrelevant to the discussion here.
Reality, you failed to read what I wrote. You won’t admit the human fetus is a human being.
“Voluntary abortions are not a travesty…” Subjective opinion. And I vehemently disagree.
Lrning, Del et al: don’t feed the troll.
JDC perhaps I’ll follow your advice.
Maya Angleou once said “Nobody can be more human than another human being.” Interview with Bob Edwards 2006.
As such, it is not holistic to suppress the rights of a human in the womb to uphold the sexual and reproductive rights of his or her mother. I think it is a perversion to base my sexual and reproductive rights on abortion and artificial contraception. Too often, we see abortion lead to the degradation and exploitation of women. Women do not need to be at war with their fertility to achieve equality or be empowered.
Yes, people have the right to choose if and when to have children, but that right comes before conception. Condemning the human in the womb to injustice and physical violence, does not lend credibility to AI’s fight against other human rights violations.
Isn’t contraception (the pill et al) the mother of all burkas?
What denies women more of their identity? The burka or contraception?
Western men just don’t control the means of production they control the means of reproduction as well. You go girls!!
“Reality, you failed to read what I wrote. You won’t admit the human fetus is a human being” – wrong Lrning, I read exactly what you wrote. You claim that I say that a human fetus is not human. Yet it is you who has failed to read what I say. I have repeatedly, on numerous occasions, clearly stated that a human fetus is human. I have never said otherwise. What do you find so difficult to read in that?
Then go ahead and actually say it Reality: A human fetus is a human BEING.
human being
n.
A human.
human being
n
1. a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens
As I have said.
Awesome! And I like this one too:
human being
noun
2. a person
Some dictionaries say such, others don’t. Take your pick.
We know how most folk voted.