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A German bishop has sharply criticized a leading Catholic women’s association’s call for Catholic hospitals in the country to perform abortions.
Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen said June 11 that a new policy paper on abortion adopted by the Catholic Women’s Association of Germany was “not Catholic.”
“That a Catholic organization is seriously demanding that the killing of children before birth ‘must also be possible in Catholic hospitals’ is completely unacceptable and downright intolerable,” said Algermissen, the emeritus bishop of Fulda and chairman of the pro-life group Seelsorge für das Leben.
Members of the Catholic Women’s Association of Germany ― known by its German initials kfd ― adopted the policy paper by a large majority at the organization’s June 4-6 national assembly in Mainz.
The text argued that there were significant regional variations in the provision of abortion across Germany and that the gaps “must be urgently closed.”
It said: “Catholic-run hospitals are subject to Catholic labor law, a special ecclesiastical law that allows for deviations from state law when Church principles are at stake. Doctors in Catholic hospitals are
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