Finland’s Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen compares abortion to butchery

OHMYGOSSIP — Finland’s Christian Democratic Party leader and Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen has made a forceful attack on Finnish abortion legislation. Speaking at a Lutheran Church event, Räsänen said that animals are better protected than are human foetuses, Yle mediates.

“Animal protection law grants better protection to animals than the law on abortion gives to unborn children. Animals may not be slaughtered in a painful manner, but it’s not permitted to even discuss the painfulness of abortion,” Päivi Räsänen said in her address in Kankaanpää.

Räsänen described abortion as a “silenced taboo and a Pandora’s box. The consequences of opening this up are feared.” According to Räsänen, there is no point in time in a pregnancy before which ending that pregnancy should be acceptable.

“An abortion-age child is not a numb piece of tissue, rather an individual that can feel pain,” she stated.

Räsänen also pointed out that Finland and Sweden are the only European countries where healthcare personnel do not have the legal right to refuse to carry out abortions on the basis of their personal convictions.

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