Posted on 03/19/2010 1:39:46 PM PDT by Cincinna
Simone Veil, 82, a Holocaust survivor who became a French minister and president of the European Parliament, will become the sixth woman to enter the Académie Française on Thursday. The state-sponsored body oversees French language and usage. The ceremony will be attended by President Nicolas Sarkozy and former President Jacques Chirac and will be televised live.
Ms. Veil, who also served on the Constitutional Council, is considered responsible for legalizing abortion in France as minister of health in 1975 and is one of the most popular women in the country.
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Some NEVER learn.
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IMHO, the one huge blot on her record is her introduction of abortion on demand in France(La Loi Veil). For someone with her direct experience, who grew up surrounded by death, eugenics, and extermination of the weakest and most helpess among us, it is inconceivable to me how she would not promote life .
What a contradiction of her belief system concerning life, after coming through the death and destruction of the Holocoast.
I believe that all human life is sacred, from conception to natural death. There is nothing “heroic” IMO, about promulgating the systematic, institutionalized destruction of innocent life.
The modern abortion movement, beginning with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, has its roots in the early 20th century Eugenics movement. Margaret Sanger was a believer in, and promoter of Eugenics, as well as an early admirer and supporter of Adolph Hitler. The very same movement that led to Nazism and decimated the Jewish population of Europe, including in the so called “enlightened” France, Germany, and Austria.
If she is remembered only for making abortion legal, that is a shame, but it does cast the harsh light of truth onto the social and moral disintegration of “post modern” i.e. post Judeo Christian values in France.
My point, exactly.
Thanks Cincinna.
“Veil”: pronounced as “vile”
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