Council of Europe Wants Total Decriminalisation of Abortion

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2008-03-21 18:28

A quote from Life Site, 19 March 2008

A committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has now officially recommended that those few countries in Europe that still restrict abortions should guarantee unrestricted access to abortion. The draft resolution from the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men says countries should "decriminalise abortion, if they have not already done so." The Committee also recommended that sex education be made mandatory for young people. […]

The Committee criticised even those legal restrictions that did not specifically prohibit abortion, saying, "The repeated medical consultations required, the time allowed for changing one's mind and the waiting time for the abortion all have the potential to make access to abortion more difficult, or even impossible in practice". […]

The Council of Europe, distinct from the Council or Parliament of the European Union, does not have legal authority under European treaties to require compliance, but nonetheless is an influential part of the European legal machinery and its recommendations are taken seriously in member states and the drafting of EU laws.

Like most international and pan-European bodies, the Council of Europe is known among life and family advocates for its strong secularist bias and support for the full programme of the abortion and pan-sexualist movement and anti-Christian bias.

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@lancegrundy

Submitted by Monarchist on Sun, 2008-03-23 01:36.

Polish political elites are sell-outs, together with Brussels bureaucrats they prepared huge propaganda campaign in media outlets describing the EU as a second heaven. People who voted in favor knew nothing about this organization. In other words typical democratic swindle. 

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This is the work of the devil!

Submitted by Dr. D on Fri, 2008-03-21 23:17.

This is the work of the devil. It has always been wrong to kill the unborn, and it always will be wrong. This should be evident even to the most secular Europeans when the birth rate of native Europeans is so far below replacement levels. European babies should be treasured, not murdered!

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The killing of the unborn

Submitted by HenrikRClausen on Fri, 2008-03-21 22:41.

I still think killing the unborn is wrong, and very much so.

Adoption is a very sensible alternative. For the mother, who doesn't kill her child. For society, which is struggling with declining birth rates at a large scale. For the parents of the child. And, most important, for the child itself, getting the greatest gift imaginable.

4 Good reasons. Please go convince others...

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Circ, Circ, Circular Impression . . .

Submitted by B. English on Fri, 2008-03-21 21:21.

Out of curiosity, would it be like Canadian style sex ed for children:

  • homosexual sex is good and right.
  • how to roll a condom (nose cone) over Johnny's wee rocket.
  • have lots of sexual partners-- you are after all in your tweens (this happened in British Columbia in the junior high school system).
  • bonus points: do you really think that the old hippies teaching sex ed will touch on the topic of post abortion depression? Just asking.
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    A betrayal of their past?

    Submitted by Lancelot Owen on Fri, 2008-03-21 21:03.

    Before they joined the EU the Poles and Maltese must have realised they were making a Faustian bargain. Jan Sobieski and the Knights of St John must be turning in their graves.
     

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    Murder Inc.

    Submitted by traveller on Fri, 2008-03-21 19:13.

    I propose decriminalising the killing of Council of Europe members.

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