Sad to see this happening:

A senior Roman Catholic bishop has resigned from Amnesty International in a
row over the human rights group’s new policy on abortion.

The Right Rev Michael Evans, the Bishop of East Anglia, stood down after 31
years in protest at support for abortion facilities in developing countries.
His highly critical comments come as thousands of other Catholics who belong
to Amnesty are considering resigning after the policy change at a meeting
last week.

The organisation’s international committee voted to support the
decriminalisation of abortion and women’s access to legal and safe abortion
facilities.

But it happens to just about every organisation: mission creep. Amnesty started out as a single issue body (the immediate issue was two political prisoners here in Portugal). Political prisoners and fair trials. This then expanded (rightly in my view, for whatever that’s worth) to opposing judicial execution.

By expanding beyond that they’re diluting their power. But as I say, it happens to just about every organisation. If we’re opposing this, it’s all too easy to add another thing or two to our list.

Why not just adopt the Fundamental Charter of Human Rights? And when you have done, what makes you any different from the UN?