Source: Zenit
MADRID, Spain, JULY 5, 2010 (Zenit.org).- As Spain's liberalized abortion law went into effect, the nation's bishops reiterated that the measure is "incompatible with an upright moral conscience."
In a statement today, the prelates repeated why the law "worsens the existing legislation."
First, and above all, the bishops said, "because it considers the elimination of life of those who are going to be born as a right of the expectant mother during the first 14 weeks of the pregnancy, leaving practically without any protection whatsoever these human lives, precisely at the stage when the great majority of abortions are carried out."
In the second place, "because it establishes such an ambiguous concept of health that is equivalent to the introduction of the so-called social and eugenic indications as the legal justification of abortion," adds the note.
In the third place, they said, "because it imposes on the compulsory educational system the ideology of abortion and 'gender.'"
These and other reasons were already explained by an episcopal conference committee in June 2009, which the entire assembly reiterated in a communiqué of that November.
Article provided by ZENIT News Agency.