Life protection

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Protection of life is a term that is often used in German today for bioethical topics in connection with abortion . A “ life protector ” is seen as an opponent of legal abortions.

Protection of life was also used together with the terms biophylaxis and bioprotection in the 1960s and 1970s by individual groups of the environmental protection movement as a generic term for all protective measures for the preservation of the basis of life for humans, animals and plants. Protection of life in this context encompassed all areas of nature conservation and environmental protection .

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The meaning as a generic term for the totality of all protective measures for the preservation of the basis of life led to the establishment of a world alliance for the protection of life in 1960. The scientific justification can be found e.g. B. in the publication by Herbert Bruns , Institute for Biology, Environment and Protection of Life, Schlangenbad, from 1962. According to Bruns, “protection of life” as well as “ biopolitics ” (collective term for health, environmental and survival policy) are “branches of applied biology and thus also a sub-area of biology ”.

The term was later picked up by others:

  • For example, Hubert Weinzierl (from 1964 in the Presidium of the German Nature Protection Ring ), from 1983 to 1998 at the head of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany, published an article in 1966 under the title Life Endangerment - Life Protection. How to change my home .
  • Hartmut Gründler wrote in 1973 on the terms protection of life and environmental protection :
    “There are numerous arguments to justify the scientifically founded and internationally introduced word 'Lebensschutz' (bioprotection, protection of life, protection de la vie) by H. Bruns in 1962 instead of the careless word 'environmental protection'; one thing is enough: hostile environments do not deserve any protection - on the contrary. "

Based on this concept, associations were also named:

  • The World Association for the Protection of Life, founded in 1958, has branches in more than 30 countries around the world
  • The Tübingen working group for the protection of life - non-violent action in environmental protection eV , founded in 1974, was a member of the German life protection associations and citizens' initiatives. V .; its founder, Hartmut Gründler, had been a member of the Bund for the Protection of Life , led by Bruns, since 1971 .
  • There was a Democratic Protection of Life Movement in the 1970s , founded in March 1974.
  • Furthermore, the term plays a role in the program of the Action Group of Independent Germans , which in 1973 at its party congress in Kassel declared itself as the "Party for the Protection of Life" and still plays a role today in the Ecological Democratic Party in the sense of a comprehensive nature, animal and and human protection.
  • For the European elections in 1989 and for the Bundestag election in 1990, a party called "GERMAN SOLIDARITY Union for the Protection of the Environment and Life" (ÖKO-UNION) took part.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "since the 1960s, biophylaxis and bioprotection, nature conservation and environmental protection" according to Meyers Lexikon online, as of July 20, 2009
  2. ^ Bruns, Herbert, Lebensschutz or bioprotection as an integration of human, animal, plant, nature and landscape protection. Scientific justification and practical requirements for the maintenance and creation of healthy livelihoods for humans, animals and plants, biological treatises from the Institute for Biology and Protection of Life. Issue 32–33, Biologie-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1969.
  3. ↑ In: Glaube und Tat 1966, pp. 273–275
  4. ↑ In: "Protection of life as a task of non-violent action", in the magazine Das Leben No. 12/1973
  5. ↑ after Herbert Bruns, in foreword to Biologische Abhandlungen 53–54 Wiesbaden 1977
  6. ^ Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics, Hanover 2004 and 2006