Europe's Top Courts on a Pro-Life Roll

Teresa Neumann : Feb 2, 2012
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra - Christianity Today

"The very Western, liberalized way of thinking is losing its monopoly over the ECHR." -Gregór Puppinck

(The European Union)—Last year the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)—which is the equivalent of our Supreme Court—upheld Austria's ban on in-Vitro fertilization. They also ruled against destroying human embryos for scientific research.

Those rulings, in addition to upholding Ireland's abortion ban, has surprised many.

"It's definitely a trend," said Roger Kiska of the Alliance Defense Fund, Slovakia. "Two or three years ago, you never would have thought that within a year you would have three pro-life [victories] in the courts."

According to a Christianity Today report, some of the credit is given to the fact that eastern European nations are serving as a moral balance to the more humanistic western nations in the E.U.

Said Gregór Puppinck, director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, "The very Western, liberalized way of thinking is losing its monopoly over the ECHR."