President of German Bishops Defends Extremist Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf as Constitutional Judge
Brosius-Gersdorf was to be elected on July 11 as a constitutional judge (12-year term). However, the parliamentary vote was postponed after it became clear that Brosius-Gersdorf would struggle to gain the two-thirds majority necessary for confirmation.
The days before, there was a big outcry over her extremist views.
In her opinion, the crime of abortion should not be considered a crime anymore and be paid for by health insurance companies. She even stated that there were “good reasons why the guarantee of human dignity should only apply from birth.”
Brosius-Gersdor is a representative of extremist-left positions. In 2021, she argued that a duty to “vaccinate” against coronavirus could be constitutional. She was also in favor of banning the German opposition party AfD if there was enough material against it.
Two Bishops, Stefan Oster of Passau and Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, denounced the nomination ahead of the scheduled vote in a July 9 statement: “Anyone who takes the view that the embryo or fetus in the womb has 'no dignity' and only a lesser right to life than the human being after birth is carrying out a radical attack on the foundations of our constitution.”
Back to Bishop Bätzing: When asked whether representatives of the Church had fuelled the discussions, Bätzing apologized: “A lot has gone wrong in this whole debate.”
Georg Bätzing also seized the opportunity to defend legal abortions (sic). He described the murderous German law as a 'clever compromise' that should not be jeopardised. 'Why should we abandon the clear compromise on the issue of abortion and risk dividing society?'
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