Bishop of Salzburg chases out abortion supporters from Church centre.

..... but six years too late.

Argument over abortion. Seminar won’t take place in St Vigil, Salzburg.

Translation of original article.

The Salzburg Archbishop, Alois Kothgasser has forbidden the seminar of the Austrian Society for Family Planning, in the Seminar and Education Centre of St Vigil

“This organisation is pro-abortion, it is unthinkable for them to organize a meeting in a building which belongs to the Church”, says Kotgasser’s press spokesman confirms to Kathnet.

Kotgasser had put the emergency breaks on on Friday and forbidden that the seminar should take place in St Vigil, which was to start on Monday.

The President of the Austrian Family Planning Association, Elisabeth Pracht, explained “I was called on the phone at my home on Friday evening”. The background was that on one afternoon of the one week-long conference, representatives of Gynmed Ambulatorium have been invited to come to the lectures. Gynmed Ambulatorium undertake the abortions in the Regional Hospital. She was very disappointed to have this cancellation, “We have been to St Vigil for the last five or six years and we also have had meetings in Vienna in the Cardinal Koenig House”. The seminar which was about to begin on Minday in Salzburg was going to train family planners, who have also been recognized by the Ministry. In the first instance, the seminar was about family planning and pregnancy prevention methods. “Abortion is also for us not a kind of family planning, but it is in some cases the only solution. Women should be informed about what is available,” Pracht emphasized.

“If the Church is against abortion, then it should at least not refuse information, not least to prevent abortions”.

The spokesman for the Archbishop said it was unfortunate mistake that the seminar had been planned for St Vigil. “The person dealing with the reservations of the rooms in St Vigil, was not aware who was behind this organisation. The seminar with its ten participants is now taking place in the Hotel Imlauer.

The Bishop was too busy clowning around to notice.