United Kingdom: Catholic bishops against “buffer zones” around abortion clinics. “A step backwards in religious freedoms”

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“Religious freedom is the foundational freedom of any free and democratic society, essential for the flourishing and realisation of dignity of every human person. Religious freedom includes the right to manifest one’s private beliefs in public through witness, prayer and charitable outreach, including outside abortion facilities”. This has been written by the English bishop in the release in which they criticise the British government’s decision to open, as from October 31^st, the so-called “buffer zones” around clinics where abortion is practised, in which pro-life movement activists will be forbidden from getting close to women and offering alternative options to termination of pregnancy. “As Pope Francis has reminded us, ‘a healthy pluralism, one which genuinely respects differences and values them as such, does not entail privatising religions in an attempt to reduce them to the quiet obscurity of the individual’s conscience or to relegate them to the enclosed precincts of churches, synagogues or mosques. This would represent, in effect, a new form of discrimination and authoritarianism’. By legislating for and implementing so-called ‘safe access zones’, the UK Government has taken an unnecessary and disproportionate step backwards in the protection of religious and civic freedoms in England and Wales”, the English bishops conclude.

Fonte: Agensir