Opponents of abortion and their supporters passed through Prague. They collided on Manes Bridge
The participants of the march with Czech flags and banners, for example with the inscriptions “The Child is Hope”, left Klárov around 2.30 pm and an hour later they came to Wenceslas Square. Families and children also took part in the procession, and several priests and nuns also marched.
According to the chairman Radim Ucháč, the organizing Movement For the Life of the Czech Republic wants to draw attention to the fact that due to the fact that the family already has two children, 4,300 children conceived as the third in the family are not born in the Czech Republic every year. According to the movement, women with two children living in a relationship are the most numerous members undergoing abortions. He also points to the increase in costs for a larger family, such as housing or a larger car, so the state should give more financial support. According to a survey commissioned by the movement, economic reasons are a common reason for abortion.
People in Jan Palach Square met to express their opposition to the march and to support the choice for women. According to ČTK estimates, about two hundred of them arrived, including the Minister for Regional Development and the Chairman of the Pirate Party, Ivan Bartoš. Already in 2019, when the two events took place due to the covid-19 epidemic, they tried to block the march, and the police had to intervene at the time.
Before noon, he served to support Cardinal Duke’s Mass in Saturday’s anti-abortion march at St. Vitus Cathedral. Several activists disrupted the action when they unfurled banners reading “Her body, her choice” in front of the altar, reminding Polish girls Izabela and Agnieszka, who had died because of their inability to have an abortion. The organizers had them taken out, and continued their protest in front of the entrance to the cathedral.
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The Movement for Life has recently attracted attention due to its response to cases of rape of women in Ukraine, in which it refused to stand for the administration of drugs that will end the pregnancy after the rape. Instead, the movement advised women to fix horns and pepper sprays on women in Ukraine, but rejected abortions after the rape. He deleted the post after a wave of criticism.
Archbishop Duka also gave a topic on the blog five days ago. In it, Odl described the brutality of the act of rape, but the soldiers also described it as “embracing the strongest emotions and passions.” In the text, he refused to offer “abortion pills” to raped women and mentioned as a solution the postponement of the child of rape to the baby box.
He also mentioned the situation in Ukraine in his sermon on Saturday Mass. He also mentioned the Slovak martyr Anka Kolesárová, who in 1944 was rather shot than raped by Red Army soldiers. “I don’t advise anyone to get shot or hanged,” Duka said today. He described violence against innocent people, such as the unborn, as the greatest barbarism. According to him, the fact that human life arises in numbers is not only proclaimed by faith, but also confirmed by science and medicine.
In support of women, families and human rights, she said last week that the Movement for Life was non-transparent and insisted for a long time on enacting a ban on abortion and restrictions on women’s rights. The Movement for Life brings together opponents of abortion and the support of the traditional family. He strongly opposes the Convention against Women and Sexual Violence, and opposes gay unions. In recent years, the movement has been organizing the Don’t Judge, We Help campaign. It targets women who have inadvertently become pregnant.
In 2020, for which the latest available data, women in the Czech Republic underwent about 16,900 abortions. The number has been declining for a long time, ten years earlier there were almost 24,000.