{"id":4648,"date":"2020-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2020-01-28T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T02:53:43","slug":"greek-government-orders-pro-life-signs-removed-from-metro-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/greek-government-orders-pro-life-signs-removed-from-metro-stations","title":{"rendered":"Greek Government Orders Pro-Life Signs Removed from Metro Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last updated on January 28th, 2020 at 09:53 pm<\/p>\n

Last week, the center-right Greek government\nordered the Athens metro administration to remove a series of pro-life\ninformative advertisements from its stations. The posters appeared on Monday,\nJanuary 13th<\/sup>, and they depicted a fetus in its mother\u2019s\nbelly, surrounded by a series of questions about the unborn child\u2019s development\nduring the various stages of gestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The posters were created by the pro-life group\n“Afiste Me Na Ziso<\/a>”\n(“Let me live”) and the questions on the posters read: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Did you know that to the unborn child:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 from the 18th day does his heart beat?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 exhibits brain activity beginning on day 42?\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 has all its organs formed by the eighth\nweek?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 can feel pain from the tenth week?<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the poster made the appeal, \u201cChoose\nlife!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster in the Athens Metro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Reactions were immediate and furious: many\npeople on social media asked the Athens metro to remove the posters\nimmediately; and several public figures, including members of the social\ndemocratic party (KINAL) and members of the leftist party (SYRIZA), expressed disgust\nat the depiction of an embryo on the posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The controversy quickly reached the Capitol,\nand the Ministry of Transport issued a statement<\/a> saying that these\nadvertisements offend women and their indisputable right to abort which is\nprotected by law. [Abortion in Greece it has been legal since 1986.]\nConsequently, the government ordered the removal of the posters on the grounds\nthat “campaigns carried out in public areas should not divide public\nopinion or directly insult women who are forced to make such a difficult choice like that of having an abortion<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion became of national relevance\nwhen a local sports newspaper decided to put the message “Let me\nlive” on its front page, along with an article criticizing the rhetoric of\nwomen’s rights as notoriously neglecting the rights of unborn children and\nunderlining that when women resort to abortion they do not remove from\nthemselves a lump of cells, but a human life to which they had donated half of\ntheir genetic heritage. The piece also stressed that the government’s\nintervention threatens freedom of thought, calling the order to remove the\nposters an act of “progressive fascism<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government officially defends the right to\nabortion but at the same time tries to evade the consequences by inviting\nfamilies to have more children, offering up to \u20ac 2000 in bonuses for each\nchild. In fact, Greece has one of the lowest birth rates in\nEurope<\/a>. If we add to this figure the high number of abortions\npracticed, which is estimated to have reached 300 thousand per year in a\npopulation of 11 million people, it is clear that the country is facing a\nworrying demographic crisis. For comparison, in Italy\u2014which is a country of 60\nmillion inhabitants\u2014there are about 80 thousand annual abortions. Experts say\nthat among European states, Greece is suffering most of all from the decline in\nbirths, a situation aggravated by the long economic crisis of the last decade,\nduring which abortions have increased by 15%<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Greece, abortion was legalized in the\nmid-1980s and there has been no public debate on this issue since. The recent\nposters are the first of their kind to appear in public: the strength of that\nfetus here is in being able to shake consciences after thirty-five years of\nsilence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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