Athens, July 7, 2017
Citing the grave statistics for abortions in Orthodox Greece, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus of the Greek Orthodox Church came out in support of the anesthesiologists of the Samos hospital who have refused to administer anesthesia to patients having abortions, reports Russian Athens.
According to the Metropolitan’s statistics, there are 300,000 abortions performed yearly in a Greek population of 11 million. One third of these abortions are performed on girls under the age of 18.
With a mortality rate in Greece of 120,000 per year, the country’s birth rate of only 90,000 poses a serious demographic threat to the Greek population. That is not to mention the seriousness of the sin.
Therefore, the Greek hierarches are trying to support in any way all initiatives against abortion. Metropolitans Seraphim of Piraeus and Eusebios of Samos came out in support of the anesthesiologists who refused to administer anesthesia to pregnant women for abortion procedures.
These doctors had presented the hospital with a written warning that due to their religious convictions and conscience, they refuse to administer anesthesia for such operations.
To support their stance, the doctors cited article 31 of Law 3418/2005 (the codes of medical ethics), which provides that a “doctor may cite the norms and principles of ethical conscience and refuse to perform services or participate in procedures that artificially cease pregnancies, with the exception of unavoidable risk to the pregnant woman’s life or risk of irreversible harm to her health.”
The hospital administration does not have the right to force the doctors to participate in these procedures. As could be expected, the doctors’ decision evoked a storm in the liberal and feminist press of Greece. However, it has the full support of the Greek Orthodox Church.
God have mercy on us a save us.
By the way, the sculpture shown above is very powerful. It should be shown as widely as possible. I would like to know where this sculpture is.
Stopped reading after that sentence. Come off it. Orthodox Greece. The motherland hasn't been Orthodox since 1981 when she sold her soul to the babylonian whore in brussels. 1981 was the year Greek history began. I wonder how many years we have to go before it ends.