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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would firstly like to thank God for giving me the chance to speak before Parliament on the most important issue of modern times, namely the defence of life. This is of particular significance at a time when over 50 million children are killed each year in their mothers’ wombs, which amounts to genocide on a considerably larger scale than the millions of Holocaust victims.
Many people the world over are asking whether there can be any greater degeneracy and bestiality than the murder of a child in its mother’s womb. A mother ought to be the embodiment of love and affection, and her womb should be the safest of places. Unfortunately, however, it can become a grave.
The killing of a child in its mother’s womb is not a human right. What kind of rights do ‘Women on Waves’ therefore wish to defend, if the leader of this organisation was not even entitled to practice medicine in the countries where they landed, and nonetheless prescribed life-threatening hormonal medication to induce early abortion, as well as publicising drugs which can terminate pregnancy and carrying out abortions?
I wonder whether twenty-first century Europeans really do desire a freedom allowing free rein to people with disturbed personalities, no conscience, higher feelings, dignity or compassion, that have of late been described as immature, in order to not awaken dormant consciences. After all, such people were formerly classed as psychopaths.
Rational and responsible doctors and researchers have observed with horror the manipulation and degradation of science taking place in laboratories and under the microscope. It amounts to thinly disguised terrorism inflicted on the weakest of children, and the creation of modern extermination camps.
In what way does the killing of defenceless children in their mothers’ wombs differ from the bloodbath in Beslan? Against the public’s wishes, the death penalty for the most serious of crimes has been abolished in Europe. Yet at the same time, and invoking this same public opinion, the death penalty for the most defenceless and innocent is being advocated. Upon what basis does the European Union venture to assume the right to decide on the life and death of human beings?
It is because of the adoption of such an approach to an issue involving the most fundamental of values and human life that Europe and all of Western civilisation is now increasingly at risk of collapse. Anyone who cannot see this has been blinded and deafened by political correctness. I have the highest regard for the Portuguese authorities, and commend them on preventing this ship of death from entering their territory. Finally, I call for the sanctity of life to be respected from conception to a natural death."@en1
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