“There is no abortion taking place”

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All bishops in North Rhine-Westphalia are switching to Cardinal Meisner's line on the morning-after pill. Dr. Christian Albring, chairman of the Federal Association of Gynecologists, explains on our site interview once again the medical facts.

Interviewer: What then is the official position of your association?

Dr. Christian Albring: We now know that ovulation is postponed by the morning-after pill, we also know that it does not result in the implantation of fertilized eggs. That is, all the doctors or other people who say that it prevents implantation, they don't know that, they just believe in it. And this is not good in the field of science.
Interviewer: Are those
new scientific findings? Where does this disagreement between gynecologists, i.e. specialists, come from??

Dr. Albring: These are indeed new findings of the last two years and they have only become aware of them because three years ago there was the introduction of a new preparation. In this context, the literature has been researched, new studies have been published and these studies have shown that. Of course, the new preparation had to be compared with the old one to see whether it might work better. And in the process, the knowledge was gained that only a postponement of ovulation occurs, but not the prevention of implantation. Women who took the morning-after pill after ovulation were compared with women who did not take the pill for contraception. It was found that the pregnancy rate was the same in both groups. This is clear evidence that the pill does not prevent implantation of the fertilized egg.

Interviewer: In concrete terms, this means that an "abortifacient effect" can definitely be ruled out? This is decisive for the Catholic Church in the current discussion.

Dr. Albring: An abortifacient effect can definitely be ruled out at this dosage.

Interviewer: Which preparation are we talking about? EllaOne and PiDaNa are available. Do both preparations work as you described?

Dr. Albring: That is correct, both preparations work in such a way that they postpone ovulation, whereby the newer morning-after pill, i.e. EllaOne, still works until shortly before ovulation, i.e. a few hours before. The other pill is only effective if taken two days before ovulation, and since the probability of fertilization is greatest within this time, it is of course sensible to only prescribe the modern pill.

Interviewer: Let's ame that a woman comes to you for advice, and you have an informative discussion about the morning-after pill: How long can a woman then continue to take this pill?

Dr. Albring: We don't always know when the woman is ovulating, if I just talk to the woman. The old morning-after pill is approved for three days after sexual intercourse, while the new pill is approved for five days. So if I have sexual intercourse today, I can still take the morning-after pill from today until five days later, but only the modern pill. Nevertheless, we recommend to take the morning-after pill as early as possible, because the highest effect occurs when it is taken immediately after the unwanted intercourse.

Interviewer: The opposition, i.e. the SPD and the Greens, now want to ensure that women will be able to obtain the morning-after pill without a prescription in the future. From your experience, how important is it that women also receive professional advice before taking the preparation??

Dr. Albring: The consultation is important because the women can then also be helped with regard to continuous contraception, also for the months afterwards and also with regard to sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, the reason why counseling is important is to tell the woman if and when she needs to take the morning-after pill, because in the other countries where the morning-after pill has been released, the pregnancy rates of unwanted pregnancies have not decreased, whereas that has been the case in Germany continuously for almost ten years already. This is a success of the advice given by doctors and the information provided, for example, by the German Federal Center for Health Education (Bundeszentrale fur gesundheitliche Aufklarung).

Interviewer: We have just talked about the importance of counseling. What is your basic position on this?? Should the morning-after pill be made free so that women no longer have to go to the doctor, or is that the wrong way to go??

Dr. Albring: The SPD and Die Linke are calling for the release of the old morning-after pill, because the new morning-after pill, EllaOne, requires a prescription throughout Europe. But if you release the old pill, then there are three times more pregnancies than with the new preparation. In this respect, the professional association of gynecologists rejects this release.

The interview was conducted by Stephanie Gebert.

Who organizes unionized, can go

Amazon.COM announced last week, about 1.300 employees in the US to be dismissed, including about 850 employees from the Seattle region, where the company has his headquarters. However, the qualification, especially in Seattle, to dismiss many employees, but seems to be related to the actions of the local staff to organize trade union.

The fact that employees in the United States are exposed to the Hire and Fire risk is nothing new, yes, to American capitalism as with us the co-determination right. However, the trade union organizing leads to unused the union organization, the lack of basic democratic understanding of management reveals in US companies. Driven by the Shareholder Value delusion and a sophisticated self-area device is provided by American leaders of efficacy fetishism about the social needs of employees. Instead of looking for social innovations that improve employee’s employment transactions, the social gap is further accelerated by mass.

It live the discrimination!

Employees of Amazon.com, who will be ready to silence and not sue the company, get severance payments and a further authorization of health insurance payments promised. The unions already see this as a certain success, as companies can not be dismissed without certain extra payments. But this is just a small consolation for those who are asked to make the choice or lose their job.

If it turns out that employees are to be solved or even released their location, which organize trade union, this is another proof of the fact that discrimination in the allegedly large democracy of the world is the agenda. Although the Amazon press officer Bill Curry denied any connection between the union and trade union activities, but has Amazon.COM internal meetings and messages shipped that a union is the team spirit of Amazon.Com was destroyed. Meanwhile, from Amazon employees.com, who wanted to organize unionized, when "National Labor Relations Board" A complaint because of the antigenwerkliche activities of Amazon.COM filed as employees have been asked to stop the distribution of trade union literature immediately.

The economic nightmare

Similar like Amazon.Com plays opposite the company for the company ETOWN.Com. There were also employees who wanted to organize unionized unionized. The message of management is clear: who wants to organize trade union, has no future at Etown.

Although Etown is much fewer employees than Amazon.COM affected, but the example could make school. For Dot-COM employees, the union organization is the only way to defend itself against the upcoming shuttle in the American economy. New Economy employees also have a right to be considered as a fair game. The times in the United States have passed where one had to enter into a start-up company to become a millionar after a few years ago. After stock options have proved to be a salary as a wealth-destruction rights, the resistance against the neoliberal exploitation machine increases.

Carl Hall, a science journalist of the San Francisco Chronicle emphasizes that the workers of the digital age have a good reason to organize themselves, as they often handled enough, underpaid, without disease security and without workplace security. the "Beautiful new world" The New Economy is now revealing itself for most employees as an economic nightmare, as in the case of a high level of debt of private households and the low savings ratio for many people can be directly in a social catastrophe.

For Bishop Voderholzer of Regensburg, there is no doubt about the masculinity of Jesus. According to Voderholzer, there is no such thing as a "human being beyond and independent of sexual destiny"

Regensburg Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer has defended the assignment of priestly ordination to the male gender within the Catholic Church. With Jesus, the "incarnate presence of God" came into the world at Christmas, Voderholzer said in his sermon on Christmas Day in Regensburg. In addition, the biblical testimonies and the liturgy of the Church left no doubt "about the concrete humanity of Jesus as a male being.

In this context, the bishop rejected statements according to which the Creed does not say that the eternal Word of the Father has become man, but man. Here, he said, an attempt is being made "to play off the creed against church tradition" and to impose on it a view of man and human nature that goes beyond gender determination.

According to Voderholzer, such a separation of "abstract and supposedly unsexed or supersexed human nature and concrete existence tends to be gnostic". The evangelist of John had this in mind in his gospel with the strong formulation of becoming flesh.

Voderholzer: No reason to deviate from biblical "fact of creation

"There is no humanity beyond and independent of gender determination," the bishop stressed. Even today, there is no scientific reason to deviate from the biblically attested fact of creation that man exists either as a man or as a woman. All phenomena that led to an expansion of the number of possible genders originated from a preceding philosophical preliminary decision regarding anthropology, Voderholzer said. They could also be explained in another way.

At the same time, he said that the assignment of the office of ordination to the male gender cannot be settled on the level of creation theology or incarnation theology alone. It is also connected with the sacramental-theological question. The Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches amed that the representation of Christ, the head of the church, naturally included the male gender.

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