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World Service,08 Jul 2006,26 mins

Amnesty International and the abortion question

Reporting Religion

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Amnesty International has asked its members to discuss its position on abortion. The year-long consultation will consider making the organisation's policy on abortion as considering it a human right. So is lack of abortion rights a from of repression of women? Also, the Muslim scholar, Amina Wadud talks about her new book Inside the Gender Jihad.

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