Vatican abortion treaty brings down government (Slovakia)

The Vatican has inadvertently triggered the collapse of the government in Slovakia, one of the economic stars of the 10 entrants to the EU, in a row over abortion rights. The parliament in Bratislava voted on Thursday to hold elections early, on June 17, after Christian Democrats quit Mikulas Dzurinda's centre-right minority coalition government.

The party is angry with the prime minister after he refused to endorse a draft treaty with the Vatican that would have allowed healthcare workers in hospitals founded by the Catholic church to refuse to carry out abortions on conscience grounds.

From Zenit:
A new "Treaty between the Republic of Slovakia and the Holy See on the Right to Exercise Conscientious Objection" reaffirms the universal right to life and to human dignity.

Thus states the concordat project between the Holy See and Slovakia, expected to be signed next week, according to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation.

This agreement would protect the right of all to exercise conscientious objection in relation to universal values, the group said.

Thus a Catholic doctor would have the right to refuse to participate in objectionable practices such as abortions, assisted procreation, experimentation with human embryos, euthanasia and sterilization.

The treaty has met with opposition in Europe. In the face of a campaign of pro-abortion groups, such as Catholics for Free Choice, the European Union's network of experts on fundamental rights published a notice Dec. 15 on the "right of religious conscientious objection in concordats."

According to the European report, the concordat project between Slovakia and the Holy See, by recognizing the right of conscientious objection, would have a negative impact on what it called "fundamental rights," including abortion, homosexual marriage and euthanasia.

"Unjust"

Therefore, the European network has stated that it is opposed to conscientious objection.

Bruno Nascimbene, a law professor at the University of Milan and a member of this network, who is not a Catholic, deplored the European notice, considering it "unjust" and "preposterous."

"On one hand, he said that all the associations which have been heard promote abortion, and on the other, he pointed out that many member countries of the Union have already signed concordats with other Churches in which conscience clauses are included," the Lejeune Foundation reported. "For him the question of separation between church and state is not part of the competencies of the European Union."

How is this the Vatican's "fault," inadvertent or otherwise??

The Vatican is trying to protect the rights of Catholics in a country that otherwise appears to permit the murder of the unborn. The Vatican is not trying to force the nation of Slovakia to forego its blood lust and sacrament of death, given as worship to its god, Satan.

The Vatican is merely trying to make it so that Catholics are not forced into the idolatry of child-murder.

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the European Union is doomed to fail

I was in Poland just before they joined the EU. The Polish people seemed to think they were going to receive this great influx of cash and jobs, and couldn't understand why I thought joining was a terrible idea..that what profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his soul thing.

I don't think the EU will relent on their idea to erase the Catholic identity which still beats in the heart of these countries.

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