A revived debate on abortion in Europe

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In Slovakia, a socially conservative country where more than 70 percent of the population identifies itself as Roman Catholic … the center-right coalition headed by Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda collapsed last month in a dispute between Dzurinda’s Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU) and the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) over a draft agreement with the Vatican that would restrict abortions.

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During the communist era, Slovakia, then part of Czechoslovakia, adopted very liberal abortion laws. Conventional methods of contraception were scarce and expensive, and abortions became commonplace. But since the fall of communism, Slovakia’s abortion rate has plummeted.

“In the early '90s, there were about 70,000 abortions a year. Now it’s less than 20,000,” said Rastislav Bednarik, a sociologist at the Center for Work and Family, a government agency.

Bednarik attributes the drop to the use of contraceptives and to church teachings. “The law stayed the same, but people began understanding what abortion means,” he said.

Wow so your telling me that if people understand that abortion is wrong then that makes abortion laws basically obsolute because no one will fight to keep them on the books and no one will use them? Wow that would be awesome…Gives hope that maybe we will win the fight that educating our childern that abortion is not healthy nor good for them or society might actually work in the long run…I hope and pray!!!

 

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Oh i am loving these politicans even more…Way to stand up for values!!!

Beckers

Although Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and other socially conservative countries from the former Soviet bloc have been members of the EU for less than two years, they are not afraid to swim against the currents of political correctness, nor are they intimidated by their critics.

“Unbelievably arrogant people” is how Vladimir Palko, former Slovak interior minister and a senior KDH official, described the EU’s liberal establishment. " … The arrogance of today’s liberals in Europe is equivalent to the communists’ of 60 to 70 years ago," Palko said.

After the fall of communism, Poland adopted one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Although polls show a majority in favor of loosening the law, newly elected President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who heads the ruling Law and Justice Party, are staunch foes of abortion.