Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has said a Catholic doctor must perform abortions “regardless …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, on Tuesday weighed into an abortion debate that is roiling emotions in the largely Catholic country, saying doctors have to put their obligation …More
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, on Tuesday weighed into an abortion debate that is roiling emotions in the largely Catholic country, saying doctors have to put their obligation to the patient and the law above their religious beliefs.
Tusk's comment came after a well-known obstetrician in Warsaw, Bogdan Chazan, caused uproar by refusing to allow a woman to abort a fetus with serious head and brain defects. A declared Catholic, Chazan argued that an abortion would be against his personal beliefs and the woman now has to give birth to the child.
In Poland, abortion is legal until the 25th week of pregnancy when the mother's life is at risk or if the fetus is badly damaged or the result of rape or incest.
"Regardless of what his conscience is telling him, (a doctor) must carry out the law," Tusk said. "Every patient must be sure that ... the doctor will perform all procedures in accordance with the law and in accordance with his duties."
The woman has lodged a …More
Tusk's comment came after a well-known obstetrician in Warsaw, Bogdan Chazan, caused uproar by refusing to allow a woman to abort a fetus with serious head and brain defects. A declared Catholic, Chazan argued that an abortion would be against his personal beliefs and the woman now has to give birth to the child.
In Poland, abortion is legal until the 25th week of pregnancy when the mother's life is at risk or if the fetus is badly damaged or the result of rape or incest.
"Regardless of what his conscience is telling him, (a doctor) must carry out the law," Tusk said. "Every patient must be sure that ... the doctor will perform all procedures in accordance with the law and in accordance with his duties."
The woman has lodged a …More
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"Irregardless of what the doctor holds to be moral, if the state needs the elimination of Jews for the good of the "Volk", then the doctor must inject whatever kills". Tusk, a Pole and a citizen of a country that has suffered so much from Nazism, has just adopted the "categorical imperative" of the Nazi concentration camps. It is the law, so do it. Killing a ante partem human, or killig a post partem …More
"Irregardless of what the doctor holds to be moral, if the state needs the elimination of Jews for the good of the "Volk", then the doctor must inject whatever kills". Tusk, a Pole and a citizen of a country that has suffered so much from Nazism, has just adopted the "categorical imperative" of the Nazi concentration camps. It is the law, so do it. Killing a ante partem human, or killig a post partem human are two sides of the same moral coin, rejecting conscience for the "law" of the sate. Heil Tusk!