Amnesty International’s expanded abortion advocacy gets human rights wrong
ADF International’s Director of UN Advocacy, Elyssa Koren, has criticized Amnesty International’s new support for abortion access through all nine months of pregnancy and its claim that human rights protections “start at birth.”
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