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European Council calls for end to abortion bans
CWN ^ | 4/19/2008

Posted on 04/19/2008 8:26:37 PM PDT by markomalley

Strasbourg, Apr. 18, 2008 (CWNews.com) - The parliament of the Council of Europe has approved a non-binding resolution calling for all European nations to legalize abortion.

By a vote of 102- 69, the parliament passed a resolution affirming the "right to choose." Proponents of the measure argued that legal bans do not prevent abortion but merely drive the practice underground (an argument that American proponents of legal abortion have confessed they put forward without evidence). Gisela Wurm, the Austrian lawmaker who sponsored the resolution, said that laws against abortion are a form of violence against women.

Representatives of Ireland and Malta-- the European Union countries that maintain legal bars on abortion-- objected vigorously to the resolution.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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1 posted on 04/19/2008 8:26:37 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: wagglebee; narses; Coleus

pings to your pro-life lists


2 posted on 04/19/2008 8:27:30 PM PDT by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley

What Hitler couldn’t do to them they are going to do to themselves. What a pitiful bunch.


3 posted on 04/19/2008 8:36:58 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: markomalley

{Gisela Wurm, the Austrian lawmaker who sponsored the resolution, said that laws against abortion are a form of violence against women.}

Nice to see Europeans use American talking points for abortion. Several American Medical Socities have called parental notification of abortion for teens to be a form of child abuse.


4 posted on 04/19/2008 8:42:03 PM PDT by Kuksool
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To: markomalley
*sigh*....is right.
Western (European) Civilization, is committing suicide
.....they're hopeless (Twits).


5 posted on 04/19/2008 8:43:25 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: markomalley

Pray for the Irish and those living in Malta. They are in the midst of a great spiritual battle, as are we.


6 posted on 04/19/2008 8:45:13 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: markomalley
The parliament of the Council of Europe has approved a non-binding resolution calling for all European nations to legalize abortion.

I almost expect to see articles like this on Scrappleface, with the next sentence being:
Dutch council member Kyl der Chilluns pushed the resolution, saying, "Europe's population is not shrinking fast enough. We have to make room for our Islamic overlords and to do that, we need to hasten the death spiral." The council sub-committee on the elderly, headed by Greek parliamentarian E. U. Thanasia called the measure "of utmost importance" and added, "We must see this through, along with our program of exterminating the elderly...I mean...uh...convincing those in the final phases of life to die with dignity."

7 posted on 04/19/2008 8:45:57 PM PDT by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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To: Kuksool

It is ironic that these people call notifying parents (who have more rights as adults) of THEIR CHILD’s (children have less rights than adults, legally) upcoming abortion.

Ironic they won’t tell the adult who is responsible for that minor child, what the minor child is doing.


8 posted on 04/19/2008 8:51:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: markomalley

by all means, let’s not kill terrorists in the EU but those unwanted babies have got to go!


9 posted on 04/19/2008 8:56:03 PM PDT by bpjam (Drill For Oil or Lose Your Job!! Vote Nov 3, 2008)
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To: markomalley

Europe is committing suicide.


10 posted on 04/19/2008 9:02:12 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: markomalley
Proponents of the measure argued that legal bans do not prevent abortion but merely drive the practice underground...

Isn't the exact same thing true for all crimes?

11 posted on 04/19/2008 9:10:42 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: markomalley

Europe is heading straight into a demographic abyss. Not to mention a moral one.


12 posted on 04/19/2008 9:29:17 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: ought-six

Wasn’t Roe vs Wade binding on all the states back in the 70s? Has the US committed suicide yet?


13 posted on 04/20/2008 3:14:35 AM PDT by thundrey
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To: markomalley

Yeppers...with the birth rate in Europe below replacement now, it’s certainly time to kill off the few babies being conceived. Of course, the Muslims won’t be affected, and this will only hasten the coming of Eurabia.


14 posted on 04/20/2008 4:42:33 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: thundrey

“Wasn’t Roe vs Wade binding on all the states back in the 70s? Has the US committed suicide yet?”

Roe v. Wade in 1973 eliminated states rights on the abortion issue. Prior to Roe v. Wade the legality of abortion was left up to the individual states (thus, abortion was legal in some states, but not in others).


15 posted on 04/22/2008 6:24:48 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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