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.
This is why the right to keep and bear arms is absolutely essential to a free nation.
Doctors with integrity.
Wonderful.
Yes, they’re truly wonderful.
: )
Time to do it again.
Tiller is not coming back.
yea.. good for those noble “healers”..May they be safe & exonerated
Telling it like it is! Olé!
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GOD BLESS HIM!!!!
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The idea that the government should order gynecologists to perform abortions is simply appalling. Is this really happening in Spain?
These Spanish doctors are leaders of the Faith and should be recognized as such, not criminalized.
Great prayer, and I join you in praying for the Gynecologists in Spain who are standing up for life.
May the good doctors be richly blessed.
Truly beautiful people. They will get their reward.
May God bless you doctor.
“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.
Bump!
If only our own doctors would take a cue from these folks.
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