Head of Polish bishops: ‘We must ban abortion totally!’

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WARSAW, Poland, June 29, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The head of the Poland Bishops’ Conference has urged Polish politicians to support an historic new bill seeking to institute a total ban on abortion, saying that otherwise “the blood of the innocent” will be on their conscience.
“It has to be stated clearly that the current Polish law concerning protection of life is not perfect, it is sick and now the Parliament will have a chance to heal it,” Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemyśl told Gosc Niedzielny, the country’s largest Catholic weekly.
“What kind of law is this, which allows to kill some people! Maybe we should also have a law allowing some people or institutions to steal, or maybe up to a certain value?”

The lower house of Poland’s Parliament (called the ‘Sejm’) will have a first reading vote this week on a new citizens’ bill that would enshrine total protection for children in the womb by removing the three exceptions that allow abortion under the current law.
That law, passed in 1993 after the Communists were overthrown, is one of the most restrictive in the West. However, it still allows the unborn child to be killed in cases where he is diagnosed with a serious defect or disease, where the mother is diagnosed with a health problem, or where the pregnancy resulted from “illegal activity.”

The new bill follows a massive nation-wide grassroots initiative launched by Warsaw’s PRO Foundation. Organizers needed to collect 100,000 signatures within three months in order to put the bill before Parliament - they succeeded in getting 600,000 in just two weeks.

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We have long since banned abortions — if we use the the correct word; “homicide.”

The real problem is that many do not believe in the human soul at all, and others find it easy to ignore the question of, “When does God impart a soul to the human?”

Until those two issues are recognized and clarified, abortion will continue to be a popular means of birth control. I have repeatedly asked persons favoring “a woman’s right to control her own body…” to explain to me exactly how they know when the growing cluster of cells becomes “human.” There is, of course, no “scientific” answer.

Another factor often ignored is the immense profit value of the abortion trade. Do you suppose that Planned Parenthood, Inc. and other abortion providers are charitable organizations?

Pray that our Blessed Mother will love and protect all those who are pregnant and teach them that the life they bear is God’s, and a precious treasure. Pray to St. Joseph that he will help fathers-to-be love and nurture the lives for which they are responsible. Pray to God our Father that we all might lovingly support mothers- and father-to-be, and please remember to love those who fail to understand the pain and consequences of abortion, even as we work to end this crime.