Court fines Catholic magazine for comparing abortion woman to Nazis

25th September 2009

A Catholic magazine in Poland has been ordered to pay a PLN 30,000 fine and apologize to a woman after it likened her to a killer for wanting an abortion and equated her with Nazi criminals.


Gosc Niedzielny (Sunday Visitor) was ordered to pay the fine to Alicja Tysiac and issue her a written apology after the judge hearing the case ruled that although Catholics are free to express their moral disapproval of abortion, they should stop short of vilifying an individual.

When mother of three Tysiac fell pregnant, she was told by doctors that giving birth could seriously and irreparably damage her eyesight. But doctors refused to perform an abortion, despite numerous requests from Tysiac f ...