{"id":50125,"date":"2023-01-20T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50125"},"modified":"2025-01-20T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:42:12","slug":"fines-and-arrests-for-praying-in-silence-the-slippery-and-totalitarian-slope-of-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/20\/fines-and-arrests-for-praying-in-silence-the-slippery-and-totalitarian-slope-of-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fines and arrests for praying in silence: the slippery and totalitarian slope of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some do not want to talk about abortion, but it is the great debate of our time, because this crime is burning human rights.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/14\/from-abortion-to-gender-ideology-the-anti-scientific-nonsense-of-the-left-wing\/\">From abortion to gender ideology: the anti-scientific nonsense of the left wing<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/27\/11-common-arguments-in-favor-of-abortion-and-the-reasons-that-prove-them-false\/\">11 common arguments in favor of abortion and the reasons that prove them false<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The slippery slope that begins with the legalization of abortion<\/big><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>the idea that it is legal to kill certain human beings because they are in the way<\/strong> is admitted -because without the disguise of their euphemisms, pro-abortion theses are reduced to that-, then <strong>all other human rights they are automatically threatened.<\/strong> Because if it is considered legitimate to violate the most basic and sacred human rights of innocent and defenseless human beings, killing and dismembering them in their prenatal stage, <strong>what will they not be able to do with the other fundamental rights?<\/strong> Violating the right to life pushed our society down a slippery slope whose consequences we are beginning to see on our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p><big>The attacks against fundamental rights that are being committed for the sake of abortion<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It is enough to review the events that have happened in recent years to see how <strong>abortion is becoming a destroyer of human rights<\/strong>, even of those who theoretically are not directly affected by the fact of killing an unborn child. Let's review some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2016\/12\/04\/francia-la-nueva-ley-mordaza-de-la-izquierda-iguala-criticar-el-aborto-con-incendiar-bosques\/\">the French left passed a law censoring criticism of abortion<\/a>, considering that it is a form of <em>\"moral or psychological pressure to discourage the use of abortion\"<\/em >. This law imposes on pro-lifers the same punishments that the French Penal Code contemplates for arsonists of forests and plantations (Art. 322-5). <strong>A clear attack on freedom of expression.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/05\/15\/el-psoe-quiere-saltarse-la-constitucion-para-limitar-la-libertad-de-expresion-de-los-provida\/\">the Spanish left launched an offensive to classify as \"coercion\" the mere act of praying<\/a> or offering pro-life information in front of an abortion. This undemocratic reform, which <strong>attacks religious freedom and freedom of expression<\/strong>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/diario_boe\/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2022-6044#:~:text=El%20que%20para%20obstaculizar%20el,la%20comunidad%20de%20treinta%20y\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally approved in 2022<\/a> and it turns the vicinity of abortion centers into places outside the rule of law.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, also in Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/sociedad\/20220513\/medicos-contra-el-registro-de-objetores-de-montero-en-un-pais-libre-las-listas-negras-no-proceden.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the left has promoted the creation of blacklists of pro-life doctors<\/a>,<strong> a measure that threatens freedom of conscience<\/strong> and with which doctors and other health personnel who refuse to perform abortions could be subjected to all kinds of discrimination.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizengo.org\/en-gb\/rf\/209729-prayer-not-thought-crime\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested in the UK for silently praying near an abortion facility<\/a>. This is the first time someone has been arrested in a democratic country for thinking. <strong>This is not only an attack against religious freedom, but also against freedom of thought.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/army-vet-fined-for-praying\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Smith-Connor was fined for praying in silence for his miscarried child 22 years ago<\/a>, in front of the abortion facility where the unborn child was murdered.<strong> Adam stood silent and motionless on the public street for a few minutes<\/strong> before he was approached \"accredited community safety officers\". He had his back to the abortion facility to allow for the privacy of abortion center staff and attendants. <strong> The officers asked him what he was doing and he said he was \"praying for my son, who is deceased.\"<\/strong> He has been fined simply for silently praying.<\/li>\n<li>Likewise, in recent days there has been <strong>a political row in Spain because a pro-life party, Vox<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/13\/el-excelente-plan-provida-de-vox-contra-el-que-la-izquierda-esgrime-la-ignorancia-y-la-mentira\/\">has promoted an initiative to offer 4D ultrasounds<\/a> and the possibility of listening to the fetal heartbeat for pregnant women. The reaction of left-wing politicians and media has been so virulent that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/17\/el-gobierno-cito-un-real-decreto-que-no-existe-en-su-requerimiento-oficial-a-castilla-y-leon\/\">the government of the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez has even threatened the regional government that approved this measure<\/a>, launching everything against it type of accusations for the mere fact of offering scientific information to mothers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big>If it's legal to kill an innocent, then anything can happen<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In the end, what some of us feared is confirmed. <strong>If it is legal to kill an innocent and defenseless human being, then anything can happen<\/strong>, from censoring those who speak out against the crime to fining and arresting those who simply pray silently for abortion victims.<strong> It is alarming that this happens in countries that call themselves democratic, but it is even more alarming to see the scant impact these abuses have.<\/strong> It is alarming, but it was also foreseeable. When unscrupulous politicians manage to fool and convince millions of people that it is okay to kill an innocent and defenseless human being, <strong>convincing people that persecuting certain people for disagreeing, praying or even thinking is even worse. easy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The fragility of our democracies when moral values are uprooted<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This should lead us to reflect on <strong>how fragile democracy is when it is devoid of moral values such as those that support the very existence of human rights.<\/strong> If human rights have flourished and taken root in the West, it is not something the result of chance, since it is here where there was a Christian substrate on which <strong>the idea that every human being, by the mere fact of being human, could take root, possesses a dignity that must be protected<\/strong>, the idea that it is wrong to kill innocent and defenseless human beings, the idea that no one is less worth living because they are unwanted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legalization of abortion was preceded by a campaign to erode the Christian roots of our society<\/strong>, and in doing so, one of the fruits that grew from those roots has been left unprotected: human rights. <strong>According to the moral relativism<\/strong> that claims to take the place of our Christian roots,<strong>there are no absolute truths and everything is debatable, including human rights.<\/strong> Moral relativism has opened the door to a new form of totalitarianism that has the great cynicism of disguising its abuses as \"new rights\", using them to replace and undermine authentic human rights. <strong>We are only beginning to see the result: we still have time to react.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/army-vet-fined-for-praying\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ADF.UK<\/a>. Adam Smith-Connor fined in the UK for silently praying near an abortion facility.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some do not want to talk about abortion, but it is the great debate of our time, because this crime is burning human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10732],"tags":[10430,18302,10575,18301,11462,10678],"class_list":["post-50125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-life","tag-abortion","tag-adam-smith-connor","tag-france","tag-isabel-vaughan-spruce","tag-spain","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}