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Sweden: Midwife Fired for Refusing to Perform Abortions

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Monday, July 14, 2014 (1:08 am) | Worthy News / Christian Persecution, Christian Persecution - Europe, Sweden

By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent

STOCKHOLM (Worthy News)– A Scandinavian rights group has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish government on behalf of a Christian midwife who was fired for refusing to perform abortions, according to International Christian Concern.

In the lawsuit, lawyers charged that the Jönköping County Council had supported three hospitals that withdrew offers of work from Ellinor Grimmark after the Council made performing abortions an obligation for employment as a midwife.

Roger Kiska, senior legal counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom-Europe, was confident that the Swedish courts would rule in Grimmarks' favor.

"In a civil society in this day and age, it is shocking that we are denying one of the most fundamental of human rights, the right to conscience," he said. "A society has truly lost its way when it excludes someone from the healthcare profession merely because they want to bring human life into the world rather than destroying it."

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  • Alex Pace Goodwin
    14 July 2014 at 12:18 pm - Reply

    God bless her.

    • BJ
      14 July 2014 at 8:22 pm - Reply

      And thankfully someday God will destroy the wicked.

      • BJ
        14 July 2014 at 8:25 pm -

        Though I should add that I do pray for their repentance of their sin and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ before it is too late!

  • exotidoc2
    14 July 2014 at 6:11 pm - Reply

    Pretty sick when you can be fired for refusing to murder children.

  • Anonymous
    1 August 2014 at 7:36 pm - Reply

    Seek not yet repose

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