George Soros Sends Illegal Donation to Amnesty International to Push Legalizing Abortion in Ireland

[Cristiano viejo]

George Soros Sends Large, Illegal Donation to Amnesty International to Push Legalizing Abortion in Ireland

American billionaire George Soros has been funneling huge amounts of money into campaigns to legalize abortion on demand in Ireland.

Those donations are illegal, according to the Irish Standards in Public Office Commission, or Sipo.

Yet, Amnesty International Ireland, one of the largest recipients of Soros’ money, has refused to give back the donations, The Times reports.

The billionaire’s money gave a huge bump to the pro-abortion group’s budget, contributing to a 70-percent operating surplus, according to the report.

Sipo said the donations violate the 1997 Electoral Act, which prohibits foreign parties from donating more than €100 ($138) to Irish groups for political purposes.

Here’s more from the report:

Amnesty’s recently filed 2016 accounts show that the €137,000 (about $189,000) donation contributed to the operating surplus for the year increasing by 70 per cent from €479,000 to €814,000. Total revenues were €3 million (about $4.1 million), of which the OSF [Soros’ foundation] money was 8 per cent. Sipo has said that a file will be sent to the director of public prosecutions if Amnesty does not return the money.

The accounts show that Colm O’Gorman, executive director of the charity, had a salary of €115,498. The total pay for the organisation’s seven key management personnel was €519,357.
The pro-abortion group is fighting the commission’s ruling.

“We believe that Sipo’s decision is unjust and illustrates that the Electoral Act’s third party provisions are a serious threat to civil society rights and freedoms,” an Amnesty spokeswoman said.

The Abortion Rights Campaign, another Irish group that received €25,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations, agreed to return the donation.

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The Irish government began asking questions of pro-abortion groups in 2016 after a leaked document from the Open Society Foundations revealed plans to push Ireland and other pro-life countries to legalize abortion, the Catholic News Agency reports.

In reference to Ireland, the document said, “With one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, a win there could impact other strongly Catholic countries in Europe, such as Poland, and provide much needed proof that change is possible, even in highly conservative places.”

Soros, one of the richest men in the world, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to pro-abortion groups in Ireland through his foundation, according to Breitbart. This includes €137,000 to Amnesty International Ireland, €132,000 to an affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in Ireland and €25,000 to the Abortion Rights Campaign.

Soros also has been using his money to push abortions in other countries. The billionaire gave a whopping $246 million to pro-abortion groups in the past several years, including $21 million to the United States abortion chain Planned Parenthood. Other recipients include the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution protects unborn babies’ right to life and prohibits abortions except when the mother’s life is in jeopardy. Pro-lifers estimate that the amendment has saved approximately 100,000 unborn babies’ lives from abortion. However, abortion activists throughout the world have been putting intense pressure on Ireland to repeal the Eighth Amendment and legalize abortion on demand.

In December, a biased government committee recommended that Ireland repeal the amendment and legalize unlimited abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.

A referendum vote on the amendment is expected this summer.

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/01/15/g...on-in-ireland/

[Smitty]

I'm sure Soros would be happy with less Irish in the world.

[KMack]

So what is his end goal, Soros? He needs a poison dart.

[MissMischief]

Ireland is a pretty modern country yet abortion is still banned over there? It must be unbelievably terrifying to have no control over your own body.

Apparently, approximately 12 women a day living in Ireland travel to the UK to access abortion services. And basically, if Britain wasn't an easy ferry ride away, the horror would be even worse, and the pressure to fix Ireland's constitution all the greater. In other words, the proximity of Britain is camouflaging the problem.

[Odin]

[RN97]

Ireland is a pretty modern country yet abortion is still banned over there? It must be unbelievably terrifying to have no control over your own body.

Apparently, approximately 12 women a day living in Ireland travel to the UK to access abortion services. And basically, if Britain wasn't an easy ferry ride away, the horror would be even worse, and the pressure to fix Ireland's constitution all the greater. In other words, the proximity of Britain is camouflaging the problem.

You have control over your body. Don't have unprotected sex. Unless you're Mary you should be fine. Ireland is 83.8% Christian. They're one of the last truly "christian" countries in NW Europe.
Iceland has a eugenics program that has almost rid the nation of downs. You have anti-humanity christians in the USA pushing hard to let these downies live talking about how "every life matters" etc. I am all for that kind of abortion, but in terms of aborting a fully healthy baby? I'm quite torn since most people getting abortions per. capita are lower IQ and poorer.
If you abort a fully healthy baby, you should be shunned and looked upon the same way a drug-addict or alcoholic is looked upon. You made a horrible choice and you lack self-control. Today you women in the west are basically demanding the heavens and beyond. If you open your legs and have unprotected sex several times resulting in a pregnancy, whose fault is it really? I think it has something to do with western societies being structured against your biology.

[Pigling]

If you don't feel ready to have children then don't have sex.

[KMack]

Ireland is a pretty modern country yet abortion is still banned over there? It must be unbelievably terrifying to have no control over your own body.

Apparently, approximately 12 women a day living in Ireland travel to the UK to access abortion services. And basically, if Britain wasn't an easy ferry ride away, the horror would be even worse, and the pressure to fix Ireland's constitution all the greater. In other words, the proximity of Britain is camouflaging the problem.

You are confusing control with behavior. If you do not want to get pregnant don't have intercourse. All the birth control options are available in Ireland. Killing unborn babies is evil.

[MissMischief]

You are confusing control with behavior. If you do not want to get pregnant don't have intercourse. All the birth control options are available in Ireland. Killing unborn babies is evil.

You know that some foetuses can have such severe disorders that death is guaranteed before or shortly after birth, right? Don't you think it's cruel to force women to carry foetuses with fatal congenital defects to term? Why can't they be offered a choice? Having a child with disabilities is hard. Just last year, a woman I know had a test that confirmed her "baby" had DS and she did decide to have a termination. Seriously, I would not recommend going through with a pregnancy that would result in giving birth to a child with profound disabilities.

What about the women who are victims of rape? Surely, they didn't choose to have sex and almost certainly didn't enjoy it, so why shouldn't they have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy if they decide to?

Women don't have abortions because they're heartless murderers, but because so many factors have to be considered when deciding to raise a child: be that the relationship between the parents, economic stability and also the parents' readiness to have children. Bringing a child up with the exclusion of any of the aforementioned circumstances will mean that your child is brought up in a disadvantaged position to their peers.

Also, bear in mind that banning abortion isn't likely to lead to a reduction in the abortion rate, but it just forces women to take drastic measures to terminate an unwanted pregnancy: that is, seek out unsafe abortions (which is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality) or they have to travel to places where abortion is legal (which takes a serious toll on their mental and physical health beside being pretty damn expensive).

I have never had an abortion, the situation has never arisen, but if it did I would hope that I should be allowed to, without cruelty or unnecessary judgement.

[Óttar]

Just because crap countries are having tons of kids doesn't mean abortion is wrong. Overpopulation is the cause of just about every problem one can imagine. The answer is to control the population of shithole countries AND developed nations, not merely encourage good countries to have kids to counteract the shitholes.

Ireland needs to progress as much as possible and develop their powerhouse technology sector by not allowing their domestic policy to be determined by backward forces like religion which takes action based on metaphysical speculations for which there exist no proof.