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Related: About this forumTurkey's PM Erdogan sparks row over abortion
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described abortion as tantamount to "murder", angering women's rights groups and sparking an intense debate in the mainly Muslim nation.
In line with Mr Erdogan's comments, Turkey's health minister proposed a change in the abortion law, which rights groups fear could lead to a total ban. ...
"I consider abortion to be murder. No-one should have the right to allow this to happen."
Mr Erdogan also said he was "a prime minister that is against birth by caesarean" because "unnecessary" elective caesareans were "unnatural".
Mr Erdogan, who is known to advocate having large families, caused yet more anger when he compared abortion to the aerial bombardment of civilians. ...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18297760
LeftishBrit
(41,202 posts)Sigh. The religious right of all faiths can unite on restricting women's rights; and could have been joined the nationalist pseudo-communist right-winger Ceaucescu.
rug
(82,333 posts)"This is the blog of a conservative Catholic. A very conservative one. This blogs aim is to allow true, traditional, unadulterated, strictly orthodox Catholic doctrine to be made available in a world suffocating more and more in political correctness and feel-good, everything goes, let us not upset anyone so-called Catholicism."
Paul J.D. Jones
(11 posts)This is always going to be a difficult topic to talk about - he is a brave man!
DURHAM D
(32,603 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Now PPRed.