Here’s something on Pastor Lerle from 2002. Again, the German socialists were going after him and his compatriots for their anti-abortion activities (comparing abortion doctors to genocidal Nazis, professional killers, murderers, etc):
Truth can be dangerous, another German, the theologian Dr. Johannes Lerle learned when he referred to an abortionist as a “professional killer” and was given a jail sentence for slander. For producing a leaflet with the words: “In North Clinic, life unworthy of living is being killed,” a German family was forbidden to use that terminology, because it evoked Hitler’s euthanasia program, which used the same language. A third man, Günter Annen, was forbidden to say, “Stop unjust [rechtswidrige] abortions in [medical] practice,” because the expression “unjust” was understood by laymen as meaning illegal, which abortions are not. Dr. Lerle, a theologian, was sentenced once again, this time to seven and one half months of prison2 for saying that termination of pregnancy is what it really is, the brutal, painful murder of innocent human beings in the early stage of their wonderful development, arranged by the Creator (Psalm 139). These arrests and injunctions appear to violate Article 2 of the German Constitution, where we read, “Everyone has the right to life and bodily integrity.” As a consequence, although Dr. Lerle is still in prison, the Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that protesters may indeed carry signs reading “Child murder in North Clinic,” and even “Holocaust yesterday, Babycaust today.”
http://www.profam.org/pub/rs/rs_1904.htm
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