THE UNITED NATIONS GENOCIDE TREATY Following the World War II war crimes trials at Nuremberg, the member states of the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, more commonly known as the 1948 Genocide Treaty or "The Genocide Treaty." Article 2, paragraph (d) outlaws "Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group." The prohibition arguably condemns as genocide, coerced abortion and is assumed primarily to protect the interests of mothers of wanted unborn children and only secondarily the interests of their unborn children, if at all. We urge that the treaty also be applied to protect unwanted unborn children from the genocide of abortions their mothers "choose." Abortion is no more "chosen" by the baby who is its victim than extermination was chosen by any Jew involved in the "Final Solution" to the Jewish Problem."
This is a petition to have every day abortions be included as genocide, it does not prove that they constitute as that.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crime of Genocide clearly states in Article II:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Like I stated before, woman have many reasons to abort, but it does not include to destroy in whole or in part a national, racial, political, or cultural group. So no, it is not genocide. And like I also said, if they were being FORCED to abort and the intent to was to prohibit there race or religious(etc) group from procreating, it would be a different story, but it is not.
Also, note that "genocide" addresses only crimes against national groups, rather than groups in general.
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Blueyedgt, in the future, please don't post four consecutive times on the boards; it is considered by some to be spam. Also, it would be preferred by the members if you could link to the article, instead of posting the whole thing. It makes for a lengthy and hard-to-read post. Consider these suggestions.
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RATIONALE FOR THE GENOCIDE AWARENESS PROJECT (GAP) As part of its Genocide Awareness Project, The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform exhibits large photo murals comparing aborted babies with Jewish Holocaust victims, African Americans killed in racist lynchings, Native Americans exterminated by the US Army, etc. Our purpose is to illuminate the conceptual similarities which exist between abortion and more widely recognized forms of genocide. This is important because perpetrators of genocide always call it something else and the word "abortion" has, therefore, lost most of its meaning.
blueyedqt, next time, try to link to articles, as posting them in their entirety without a citation is plagiarism. Excessively long posts also disrupt the flow of the boards. Thanks. >
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II
you guys can say what you want think what you want and do what you want its america and i understand that. i never said i hated anyone. i just planly do not and never will agree with it and being catholic i was taught never to hate or judge. i just say what i blieve. you guys can go on killing babies. if ya even took a look at the url that i posted thats what your doing killing.... just take a look.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II
Don't people understand satire? We should force people to read Jonathan Swift before we let them loose in the world, especially considering he wrote an essay about roasting (and eating) babies. A Modest Proposal, anyone?
I swear, if another person comes on this thread and says "lyke omg! u hat babys u sik person!1! ill pray 4 u but i still hat u!!!1!omg" I'm going to tear them apart. And then roast them and turn them into boots. (Not really, but I'm sure there are some who don't recognize that I'm kidding.)
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Woman have abortions for many reasons. Be it because they don't want to be mothers, they don't feel ready, they were raped or their life is in danger. This does not in include them wanting to destroy in whole or in part a national, racial, political, or cultural group. So no, it does not constitute as genocide.
I think you classifying abortion as genocide is an extreme exaggeration on your part. There is real genocide happening in the world, this is not one of them.
Now, if they were being FORCED to abort in order to prohibit there race from procreating, and the intent was was to exterminate their entire group then that's a different story. But it's not.
I entered a new scholarship contest. You're welcome to help by voting or posting the link in other places. Thank you. http://tinyurl.com/2zmopx
maya, your pro-abortion right? whay are you can you tell me that much??? heres a web sight you can visit and maybe just maybe that will change your mind
I will pray for your soul and all the souls of the children that have been killed
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II
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