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Church leaders threaten government over abortion (Sweedish "Abortion Tourism")
The Local ^ | 2/25/2007

Posted on 02/25/2007 4:13:00 AM PST by markomalley

Two of Sweden's most influential church leaders have threatened to encourage Christians to vote against the government at the next election, following a proposal that foreign women should be allowed to come to Sweden for abortions.

Sweden's Catholic bishop Anders Arborelius and leader of the evangelical Philadephia Church in Stockholm, Sten-Gunnar Hedin hinted that the Christian Democrats, traditionally supported by religious voters, could be hit hardest.

"We are sad that this proposal is backed by a Christian Democrat social affairs minister, Göran Hägglund. It is incomprehensible that he is supporting this proposal while claiming that it was required by the EU, something that this country's leading EU law expert, Professor Ulf Bernitz, insists is not the case," the pair wrote in Dagens Nyheter.

The two church leaders pointed to the Christian Democrats' current low levels of support in opinion polls, with the party hovering just over the four percent level needed to get voted into the Riksdag.

"If the Christian Democrats are ejected from the Riksdag it will undoubtedly have consequences for the Alliance."

Arborelius and Hedin write that they, together with a majority of Christian leaders in Sweden, "could be forced to work actively to reduce the chances of the Alliance being re-elected," at the next general election in 2010.

"We appeal to the government not to force us to do this."

The two church leaders accused their opponents of "aggression" and "self-righteousness". They questioned whether most women would have the resources to travel to Sweden for an abortion. They said that in "abortion tourism" was in practice only an option for "those who are well off and who wish to have an abortion at all cost."

"As Christians, we think there's a whiff of hypocrisy when you say you want to help foreign women."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife; sweeden
"Abortion Tourism???" WTF???
1 posted on 02/25/2007 4:13:07 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Probably all those pregnant Arabs that can't get an abortion back home.


2 posted on 02/25/2007 4:17:58 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (Nothin right in my left brain .... nothin left in my right)
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To: NYer; Coleus; Campion; cpforlife.org; Pyro7480; narses; Alex Murphy; lightman

Some sign of moral outrage in Sweeden? Didn't think it was possible!

for your various ping lists!


3 posted on 02/25/2007 4:19:14 AM PST by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley

wow. death merchants.


4 posted on 02/25/2007 4:38:13 AM PST by AIM-54
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To: markomalley
... threatened to encourage ...

Oh my ... how strong, how prophetic ...

5 posted on 02/25/2007 5:33:30 AM PST by Tax-chick (Every "choice" has a direct object.)
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To: markomalley

There must be, what, 200 practicing Christians in Sweden. I'll bet the socialist overlords are shaking in their boots.


6 posted on 02/25/2007 5:36:04 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Interestingly enough, Roman Catholicism has been growing healthily in Sweden for years now. Not only the influx of Eastern Europeans, but the Lutheran state Church has become such a pathetic tool of the hyper-liberal establishment that any Swedish conservative in academia has little choice but to cross the Tiber.


7 posted on 02/25/2007 6:48:47 AM PST by Squire of St. Michael
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


8 posted on 02/25/2007 7:55:56 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, insects)
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