In his Fastenhirtenbrief of this year the archbishop of Salzburg writes over the right to lives. No law can legitimize the crimes of the abortion or euthanasia. In order to make it all right, the archbishop criticizes also groups of life protection with „fanatical eagerness “. Excerpts from the letter.

(more kreuz.ner, Salzburg) this year wrote the archbishop of Salzburg a long, fifteen-lateral Fastenhirtenbrief. The topic? The life protection.

Archbishop Alois Kothgasser calls the Salzburger believer to oppose laws which legitimize the child abortion and the euthanasia. Abortion and euthanasia are „crimes “. No human law can make a right from them.

The value of a democracy stands and falls with those values, which a democratic state embodies. Are fundamental those became the human person, the attention of their inalienable rights as well as the public interest as regulating criterion for the political life.

Laws, which abortion and euthanasia favoured, placed themselves radically against the property of the particular and against the public interest: „You absolutely are from there without reliable legal validity. “

The right of the stronger one is not right, explains the archbishop. `A Recht' on abortion to demand child killing and euthanasia means, to maintain an absolute power over and against the others: „However that is the death of the true freedom. That is the fall of the fundamental rights of the people unity. “

Under all crimes, which humans can commit against the life, exhibit the abortion of characteristics, which made it particularly despicable. The archbishop refers to the second Vatikanum, which et the child abortion in the constitution „Gaudium Spes “„a abhor-worthy crime “calls.

In view of a so serious situation is to be looked the truth courageously in the face. The things belonged with the name mentioned to give way „without comfortable compromises. “The archbishop quotes the prophet Jesaja: Pain those, which call the bad well and property badly, which makes the darkness the light and the light the darkness.

However. „Groups, which enter actively and committedly for the life, should not purge into blind, almost fanatical eagerness, which contributes more to hostile confrontation as for the overcoming of the difficulties. “Criteria of the reliability are that such groups with their actions showed a Christian motivation. Is to be met to other-thinking one with respect.

If today so much honest effort around the creation is put to the day, around like much more concern must be valid for the defenseless, unborn human life. It cannot be that plants and animals were better protected than humans.

Of Salzburg archbishop also the statement criticizes, according to which the abortion is in some cases „the smaller evil “. One tries in principle the value of the life of the unborn child holds, arranges him however in the concrete case, other secondary criteria forwards: „Abortion appears then as a way out dictated of the obligations of the life. The life right of the unborn child is subordinated to born humans. “

The reasons for the abortion did not withstand a rational examination: „The unborn child already carries all possibilities of his later development in itself. “Archbishop Kothgasser underlines that it is the same humans, who unfold from the instant of the generation to its plants during a continuous process.

„Therefore a human creature from the instant of its Empfängnis is to be respected on as a human person and treated. “


The socialist national main woman of Salzburg, Gabriele Burgstaller, wants the bloody child abortion with 1 April in the national hospital against the will of the officials would bring in. Lebensschützer protest against the brutal arbitrariness of the abortion politician. At present it is not possible in the national hospitals of Salzburg, Tirol and Vorarlberg to drive children off. It is feared that the introduction of the child abortion to Salzburg to Tirol and Vorarlberg will draw similar steps.