Action Life Austria

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The action life Austria is an association for the protection of human life, especially at the beginning of life. The main focus of “Aktion Leben Österreich” is advice on pregnancy, sex education and public relations. The philosophy of Aktion Leben Austria is that every person is valuable and has dignity - in every phase of their life.

Organizational form

Aktion Leben Austria is a private, independent and interdenominational association that is mainly financed by private donations. On November 14, 2001, several Austrian “Aktion Leben” regional groups were among the first 44 organizations to receive the Austrian seal of approval for donations .

Fields of activity

The association advises, accompanies and supports pregnant women or parents-to-be who are in an emergency situation. The advice is non-directive . The association offers sex education for young people, educational events for all age groups and publishes brochures, games, teaching aids on the subjects of contraception , pregnancy and biotechnology . The association also provides information on ethical issues in modern medicine and takes a position on them.

The association speaks out against a renewed punishment of women who have an abortion under the time limit, against penal sanctions against doctors and against offensive contact with women who want to have abortion in front of abortion clinics.

criticism

Other, above all Catholic, right to live groups in Austria criticize that the association “works against the Church on fundamental issues” (Norbert Rauscher, Youth for Life), and that the open-ended pregnancy counseling does not correspond to church teaching.

history

In 1954, the Jesuit Georg Strangfeld and a group of committed Catholic academics founded the Save Life Campaign to support pregnant girls and women, as the abortion rates were alarmingly high despite the threatened punishment. In 1955 the first major event took place at the University of Vienna under the title “Abortion - why not?”. As a result, a number of other “Save Life” associations were founded in the federal states. (1959: Steiermark, Tirol) In 1957 the first Austrian conference took place. The goals at the time were: raising awareness, advocating child and family-friendly policies and caring for needy women and families, e.g. B. through financial support from Caritas Mothers Aid.

Under the SPÖ minority government Kreisky I , Justice Minister Christian Broda presented a draft law for an amendment to criminal law in January 1971, which included an "indication solution" that was supported by the SPÖ women at the time. In the summer of 1971, the Aktion Leben appeared for the first time , which opposed a “relaxation of the abortion regulations”. On the basis of young women who rejected Broda's draft, the attitude of the SPÖ women changed in the further course, and in 1972 they pushed through the demand for a time limit against the party leadership . In the meantime, the SPÖ also won an absolute majority for the first time in the 1971 National Council election. The time limit regulation was decided on November 29, 1973 and, after objection by the Federal Council, again on January 23, 1974 in the National Council and came into force on January 1, 1975. In 1974, Aktion Leben initiated the collection of support signatures for the referendum, finally carried out in 1975, for the “protection of human life” and against the deadline solution. With 895,665 signatures, it was the largest referendum at the time. When the National Council dealt with the draft of Aktion Leben in 1976 , it was rejected by 105 votes to 75.

In 1978, Save Life and Action Life merged. After that, different groups appeared again and again under the name Save Life . In addition to the goals of the 1950s, there are now advice and help, and since 1995 bioethical issues.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "criticism of'kontraproduktiven' commitment'Action Leben'", in: www.kath.net of 21 February 2007
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Baumgartner: Aktion Leben - in action for children and mothers for 50 years ( memento of December 30, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ), church newspaper Diözese Linz 2004/42, October 12, 2004
  3. ^ History ( Memento from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Caritas Diözese Graz-Seckau
  4. ↑ Alexandra Weiss: The private is political ( memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Green Education Workshop Tirol
  5. ↑ Timeline - Abortion in Austria 1852-1975 , Feminist Page of the Socialist Youth
  6. ↑ Deadline solution , knowledge lexicon, Documentation Center Vienna
  7. ^ Daniel Lehner: Arrangement of the "Images of Human Life" in the political domain of Austria in the 1970s / 80s - using the example of the deadline regulation debate , project report, January 2009, Institute for Higher Studies (IHS), Vienna, p. 68 (PDF- P. 74; 543 kB), footnote 75

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