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The fight against the PID is lost

While we are angry about the F-Memorandum, attracts the most prominent member of the CDU group of leaders who have provided the prelude to the F-Memo, Norbert Lammert, the strings. The covenants are tied, the strategy is subject to the ban. The same coalition of unspeakable ZK-Catholics and liberal Protestants, which ultimately has concerned the decisive votes for the softening of the embryos, now worried the votes for the - for now - in some cases release of Präimplatationsdiagnostik.

EKD-President of Schneider, who has argued for months for the release of PGD achieved a decisive success. Although the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany has collected in his first published statement on Tuesday all the arguments that speak from a Christian perspective to the licensing of PGD. But then it says in the opinion

"Among the members of the Council" means it, "there are different opinions on Assessment of situations in which would not affect the application of the PID function, between disabled and non-disabled embryos differ, but the task is to identify viable embryos. "Are you dealing with those cases where there is a risk of a rapid infant death. This cases differ according to the opinion of others "in principle" because "it's not 'worth living' and 'not worth living', but of viability and inability to" go. In these cases "could be given the possibility that PGD allow" if adequate counseling of couples guaranteed and abuse is excluded.

Thus, the Council has not expressed explicitly, at least not unanimously against the PID, but considers it reasonable to allow the PID in the cases where the birth of a nonviable child could be prevented. Very striking that this position corresponds exactly to the Episcopal represents highly acclaimed Norbert Lammert together with other parliamentarians in another of him and brought bill . These MPs want to allow PID namely, when a parent is present at a genetic predisposition, "the lead with a high probability of miscarriage or stillbirth or death of a child under the age of may. "unison, or not?

The political constellation is known. The last time it was the EKD chairman Huber, led to the collapse on the Protestant side, the opposition front against a softening of the Embryo Protection Act. Together with the Central Committee Catholic Schavan the decisive votes for the parliamentary majority earned, he may see as a key protagonist of this penultimate stop on the right to life.

liberal Catholics, liberal Protestants, liberal liberals, including liberal left. For more than a hundred years, since the years of the Kulturkampf This constellation has yet every Catholic, and - what is forgotten often consistently-Protestant - Resistance overcome.