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Spanish Bishops Urge Faithful to March in Big Pro-Life Protest : 15th Oct 09
The Bishops’ Conference of Spain issued a statement calling on the faithful to take part in the pro-life march scheduled for this Saturday to protest the Socialist government’s proposed weakening of the country’s abortion laws.
“The laity are appropriately responding to this challenge—which is of great moral and social transcendence—by making use of their right to peacefully protest to express their disagreement with the proposed law, which constitutes a serious step backwards in the protection of the right to life of the unborn, a greater abandonment of pregnant mothers and irreparable harm to the common good”, the bishops declared.
They urged Spaniards to read their June 17 statement, in which they denounced the notion of converting the killing of unborn babies into a “right”.
The proposed rewriting of the abortion law is “unjust,” the bishops continued, calling for prayers that unborn babies would be “appropriately protected by our laws”.
Bishop Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, secretary general of the Bishops’ Conference, said opposing abortion, which is “grave crime,” “is not a question of religion”. “A people that kills its own children is a people without a future”, he warned.
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