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Naturally, the Vatican is fully within its rights to make such a call to boycott Amnesty. Whether or not it is the right thing to do is a different matter. Both the Catholic Church and Amnesty Intl. are organizations which do an immense amount of good work for those people on the planet that are in the greatest need. It is unfortunate that they would have to come to odds over this issue, but that is the nature of the abortion debate, I suppose.
While the Catholic position is quite hardline on the issue of abortion, I don't think I'd use the word hypocritcal, since unlike many of the conservative Christian groups who tout 'sanctity of life', they go beyond opposition of abortion and also fight hard against all threats to life, including war and the death penalty.
As I haven't made any contributions however to either organization, I guess this won't change my donation habits anyway. I am an anti-abortion pro-choice person myself, so I don't seek to eliminate access to abortion, but instead, I'd rather tackle demand. Supporting better pre- and post-natal care, universal healthcare, especially for families, economic equality, more effective education, boosting families, and improving the adoption process are all ways to reduce the need for abortion and the number of abortions without driving women back to dangerous methods or putting them under the yoke of their impregnators.
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