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Posted on 08/20/2009 3:30:24 PM PDT by NYer
.- Dr. Esteban Rodriguez, spokesman for the organization Right to Life (Derecho a Vivir) in Spain, responded yesterday to comments by the country’s Minister of Justice, Francisco Caamano, who said there was no room for a conscience clause in the new law on abortion.
“We are willing to go to jail rather than following a criminal law, Rodriguez said, “and we are willing to commit the supposed crime of disobedience before the crime of abortion.”
“We will not kill our patients, nor will we commit a crime against the public health deliberately harming the heath of women, no matter how much the Minister of Justice threatens us and abuses his power,” the doctor said.
“We doctors are not soldiers, nor policemen, nor executioners. There is no civil disobedience in the refusal to kill a human being, but rather the fulfilling of our professional obligation,” he added.
If the government carries out the threat by the Minister of Justice to penalize conscientious objectors as disobedient, Rodriguez said that a “new category of victims of the laws on abortion and the regulation of conscience will be created in the gynecologists who wish to carry out their moral obligations in the face of an imposed ideology.”
After recalling that the statute in the Spanish constitution allowing conscientious objection must be respected, Rodriguez expressed his surprise that the law would shield from prison some doctors who have been convicted of performing illegal abortions, while punishing with prison those doctors who have fought to defend the lives of their patients and the health of women.
“We recommend they think about creating a new level of officials at the ministries of Justice and Equality: fetal executioners,” Dr. Rodriguez remarked.
“We find the totalitarian intentions of the Ministry of Justice, in conjunction with those of Equality, to be highly troubling. If the former Minister of Justice stirred things up with officials in the judiciary, this one is going to accomplish the same thing with medical professionals,” he warned.
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Someday maybe they'll become civilized, but at this time they are as far from it as they were in the 11th century.
God bless and keep those heroes! May He protect them, confound and disarm their enemies, and keep them safe!
Which only proves what we already know, that it’s not about choice, it’s about a culture of death and the governments playing God in advancing it.
How sick is that!
What ever happened to Spain’s touted Catholic or Christian faith?
Good on these doctors for saying “no” and meaning it.
God help them,
This is coming here.
This will happen here. Many of us will have to find out how much courage we have, and how much certainty in our convictions we have. These men just passed the test. Our test is coming.
Amen and Amen again! There is only ONE judge that these doctors need worry about, and they know it! Good on them!
I hope Tiller comes back as Jacob Marley to warn the rest!
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I believe Europe has been there and done that.
Only if people who foresee it fail to exert their constitutionally guaranteed right and moral obligation to oppose it.
This is America, not Spain.
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Excellent point - confound their enemies. That is one prayer often neglected. Thanks for the ping and post.
Only a demon (or a Democrat/socialist/liberal) could come up with a law would punish those who refuse to take a life and protect those who take one illegally.
Where Obamacare will take us in 10 years if it’s passed.
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