Physicians who oppose abortion in the European Union could soon be stripped of their medical licences, according to this Lifesite News report:
A European Union advisory panel has issued a statement saying that medical professionals are not allowed to refuse to participate in abortions. According to the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights doctors should be forced to perform abortions, even if they have conscientious objections, because the right to abort a child is an “international human right.”
The Network, which consists of one expert per EU member state, assists the European Commission and the European Parliament in developing EU policy on fundamental rights. The Network wrote a 40-page opinion stressing that the right to conscientious objection is not “unlimited.” The opinion was given in connection with a proposed treaty between the Vatican and Slovakia. This treaty includes a guarantee that Catholic hospitals in Slovakia will not be legally obliged to “perform artificial abortions, artificial or assisted fertilizations, experiments with or handling of human organs, human embryos or human sex cells, euthanasia, cloning, sterilizations, [and] acts connected with contraception.”
To quote the report:
The right to religious conscientious objection should be regulated in order to ensure that, in circumstances where abortion is legal, no woman shall be deprived from having effective access to the medical service of abortion. In the view of the Network, this implies that the State concerned must ensure, first, that an effective remedy should be open to challenge any refusal to provide abortion; second, that an obligation will be imposed on the health care practitioner exercising his or her right to religious conscientious objection to refer the woman seeking abortion to another qualified health care practitioner who will agree to perform the abortion; third, that another qualified health care practitioner will be indeed available, including in rural areas or in areas which are geographically remote from the centre.”
One can imagine the end result: physicians stripped of their licences and imprisoned, even quietly suffering "accidental deaths" or "suicides" for refusing to perform abortions.
Don't think that this isn't coming to Canada, either. The same thing will happen with homosexual civil marriage and unrestricted abortion as soon as its enthusiasts feel up to the challenge.
The federal government is quite prepared to throw as many people in jail as necessary, under the hate crimes laws, to achieve its objectives.
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Who would have thought that the fall of the Berlin Wall would lead to totalitarianism in the West rather than freedom in the East?
I've added this to my Blog Roundup.
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