March 25 The Catholic Church in Poland celebrates the Day of the Feast of Life. The anniversary of Pope John Paul II's 1995 edition of the encyclical "Evangelium vitae" falls on that day. On this occasion, the Life and household Centre and the Ordo Iuris Institute, together with the Catholic Information Agency, organised a press conference "Evangelium vitae – inspires and motivates for 30 years". During the event, people discussed threats to the protection of life and how to prevent them. Publications on euthanasia and freedom of conscience of doctors were besides presented. The conference was attended by experts in the fields of law, philosophy, ethics and history.
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The conference was opened by Dr. Monika Zając from the Center for Life and Family. It indicated the validity and validity of the encyclical ‘Evangelium vitae’.
– This is simply a mandatory reading. As a foundation, but besides a signpost in actions undertaken by the movements of life defenders around the world, the call to proclaim, praise and service the Gospel of life and the conviction of the request for a deep renewal of culture, especially legal culture, she stressed.
On the another hand, Fr. prof. Paweł Bortkiewicz, philosopher and ethic, pointed to the modern normalization of attacks on the protection of life, which John Paul II wrote about 30 years ago.
– What was pathology, what was shameful, what was criminal, present becomes the norm of the law, becomes the determinant of the law. It besides becomes a determinant of democracy systems. This is an highly crucial component in the diagnosis of the modern situation," the clergy said.
The legal advisor Katarzyna Gęsiak of Ordo Iuris discussed publications published by the Institute – a monograph on euthanasia and a guide for doctors concerning the Guidelines of the Minister of wellness and the lawyer General. She stressed, among another things, that this paper does not alter the existing laws protecting human life and does not bind doctors to comply with it.
– Doctors are inactive required by the laws, regulations and regulations of their own Code of medicine to service life alternatively than take action that constitutes an assassination on life," she said.
Tomasz Rowiński from the quarterly "Christianitas" pointed to the importance of the compendium of life protection for spreading prolife movement arguments in public debate.
– It is essential to conduct academic discourse and to approximate and disarm the doctrine of utilitarianism, which is present the dominant philosophy, in terms of ethics and objectifying man, not only in the prenatal phase of life. It produces a kind of myth, in which 1 or another man can simply be removed," the writer noted.
Margaret Żaryn – historian, initiator and coordinator of the National Papal March – besides spoke. It stressed the importance of the March to spread arguments in public space about the request to defend life, especially in the face of the law that puts human life at risk.
– At a time erstwhile a law established against divine law or natural law should not be respected. However, in order for this fact to exist, social actions are needed, which will be visible in the public forum as a sign of opposition," she noted.
During the conference, a monograph entitled “The Apparition of Euthanasia: doctrine – Culture – medicine – Law”, a guide entitled “How hospitals can defend themselves against the Guidelines of the Minister of wellness and the penalties of the NFZ” and a compendium “In the defence of life”. Authors monograph on euthanasia are representatives of various fields of discipline – medicine, law, philosophy, philology or sociology. The publication addresses topics specified as the death of dignity, the case law of the Court of Strasbourg concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide, the regulation of these issues in various countries, the perception of the problem of euthanasia by Poles or philosophical and spiritual aspects of the issues discussed.
Further publication refers to the Guidelines of the Minister of wellness and the lawyer General on abortion. According to the Guidelines, a wellness condition for abortion can apply to any aspect of health, both physical and mental. It is besides intended to cover any wellness condition. In the Ordo Iuris guide, hospitals and doctors do not gotta comply with the Guidelines (which are not the origin of the applicable law) and may proceed to trust on a clause of conscience.
The conference besides presented an updated version of the publication published by the Centre for Life and household “In the defence of life”, which is simply a compendium of cognition about life-protection topics. The publication deals, among others, with the legal position of unborn children, legal conditions for abortion or post-abortion syndrome.
