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Spanish cardinal denounces plan for greater abortion access
May 28, 2009
Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain has issued a scathing denunciation of plans to ease access to legal abortion, saying that the plan shows "we are in an egotistical and hedonistic society." The cardinal pleaded with lawmakers to resist the plans of the Socialist government leadership, comparing the evil of abortion with the Holocaust. "To touch a man or a woman is to touch God," he said. "To kill a human being is to kill God."
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