“The question of the defence of life from the moment of its conception to natural death is now a postulate of reason and of just conscience, irrespective of religious faith, while faith reinforces respect for the natural laws innate in the heart of each human being”, writes the President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Przemysl, Jozef Michalik, in a letter sent in recent days to the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Polish Parliament, Marek Jurek, on the occasion of the recent opening of the parliamentary debate on amendments aimed at introducing the principle of the “defence of life from the moment of conception to natural death” into the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. According to the President of the Polish bishops, today “not only is Europe about to commit demographic suicide, but the humanity of each one of us also runs a mortal risk, whenever we fail to give an adequate response to the laws that permit us to kill an innocent being or whenever we try to convince ourselves that this killing could be ‘justified'”. “The question of the defence of life is one of the foundations of ethics; it transcends the political level and the interests of individual parties”, concludes the archbishop.
