Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

"Three ophthalmologists alleged that carrying the
pregnancy to term would damage her eyesight but they refused to sign
off on a paper needed to approve an abortion for health reasons."

YA have to wonder, why wouldn't they sign off???

Warsaw, Poland (LifeNews.com) — A court in Poland today fined a
Catholic magazine for likening a woman to a killer for wanting to get
an abortion allegedly because she would go blind if she did not have an
abortion. The case eventually netted Poland a 25,000 euro fine from the
European Court of Human Rights.

The European Court of Human
Rights issued a decision in September 2007 upholding its previous
ruling making Poland pay a woman $52,000 for denying her an abortion.

The
woman couldn't get an abortion in 2000 after claiming that giving birth
damaged her eyesight and she is now unable to take care of her three
children.

The European Court of Human Rights sided with Alicja Tysiac.

Commenting
on the case, the Catholic magazine, Gosc Niedzielny, published by the
Katowice archdiocese, compared Tysiac to a Nazi and condemned her for
wanting an abortion.

Judge Ewa Solecka ruled Wednesday that
Catholics are free to express their moral disapproval of abortion but
are not allowed to publicly vilify an individual. Solecka ordered the
magazine to pay Tysiac 30,000 zlotys (nearly $11,000) and issue her a
written apology.

Solecka said the magazine’s language was “particularly contemptuous” of Tysiac, according to an AP report.

Following
the ruling, the editor of Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor), Rev. Marek
Gancarczyk, wrote: “We live in a world where a mother receives an award
for very much wanting to kill her child, but not being allowed to do
so.”

Gancarczyk compared abortion to the ghastly medical
experiments performed at Auschwitz by Josef Mengele, saying, “They had
become accustomed to the murders being carried out behind the fence of
the camp. And what is the case today? Different, but just as terrible."

The magazine denounced Wednesday’s ruling as an infringement on freedom of speech and said it would appeal, AP indicated.

Tysiac
went to doctors when she found out in February 2000 that she was
pregnant a third time. Three ophthalmologists alleged that carrying the
pregnancy to term would damage her eyesight but they refused to sign
off on a paper needed to approve an abortion for health reasons.

Tysiac also consulted with a gynecologist who told her there was no medical reason to have an abortion.

After
having a Cesarean section in November 2000, Tysiac claims her eyesight
deteriorated considerably due to a retinal hemorrhage.

Poland
appealed the first decision and the European court affirmed its
previous ruling alleging the pro-life nation violated article 8 of the
Convention on Human Rights."

http://www.valuesvoternews.com/2009/09/polish-catholic-magazine-fined-for.html