Church pushes for abortion ban in Poland

[trotsky]

http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/apr/13/church-pushes-for-abortion-ban-in-poland/

As Poland’s Catholic Church prepares to celebrate 1,050 years as the national faith, a call by its bishops for a ban on abortion has embroiled the church in a divisive debate.

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“In this jubilee year of Poland’s baptism, we urge all people of goodwill, believers and nonbelievers, to take action to ensure full legal protection of unborn lives,” the bishops said.

The climate seems favorable for tightening Poland’s anti-abortion law, already one of Europe’s strictest, because power is held by a conservative government whose members say they are Catholic and follow the bishops’ teachings. Some 90 percent of Poles declare themselves as Catholics. The ruling Law and Justice party won presidential and parliamentary elections last year largely due to the church’s support.

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Some government policies converge with the bishops’ views: a program funding in-vitro fertilization, that has led to some 3,600 births, will be closed in July, and government subsidies are to be scrapped for the “morning-after” pill.

And this is where religion goes off the rails. Not content with merely dictating their members' moral choices (as if that wasn't bad enough - but at least people are free to leave), they have to make those choices for EVERYONE. The RCC is doing this kind of thing around the world - fighting to make sure NO ONE can do something they don't like.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What's happening in Poland makes me VERY ANGRY.

Taking women's choice away from them, turning them into little more than brood mares, no matter whether the child was conceived in love or in hate.