Hardly had the leader of newly elected religious party NIKI sworn-in in the Greek Parliament and he revealed to public his pint of views on to social issues: abortions and purity education and pledged for the promotion of the Family.
“Our faith is our life,” Greek-Orthodox, theology teacher Dimitris Natsios told ANT1 TV on Monday morning and added:
“The right to abortion is not based on any medical or legal logic. As a democratic, patriotic Niki movement, we believe that absolutely no one has the right to cause harm to the fetus.”
He said that a different kind of education should be given to school children and that is the promotion of Family and the education on purity.”
“We have 102 sections in the primary school books, in the old reading books (today we call them language books). There is not a single section that focuses on the institution of the family”, he argued.
When the journalists reacted, he reiterated that we should teach purity to primary school children, instead of teaching cooking recipes, we should teach texts from the great masters of our literature, and concluded:
“Does the word purity bother you? If you teach a text by Polemis, Elytis, Drosinus, Kalvos, all these are texts of purity.”
Regarding the issue of “family education,” he said that the family should be promoted “so that the children are taught the institution of the family, but also to fill the villages with children again.”
When asked if he recognizes women’s right to self-determination, he replied that “these discussions are very difficult, but from the very conception there is a human being, there is the right of the human being, of the unborn child, this is our point of view”, he said.
Natsios stated that he is not bothered by a woman wearing pants and differed from the statements of the Metropolitan who said that he detests women who dress like men.
Regarding NIKI relations with the far-right party of the Spartans who also pledge for “family, homeland and faith” ( a slogan created by the colonel’s junta), the party leader said that his party is not concerned with extreme views.
Niki has 10 seats in the Greek Parliament.
PS given NIKI’ purity and some ND deputy minister who was pleadging against abortions, the two parties could cooperate and pass young women a chastity belt with a digital code (Digital governance!) to be given to the groom on the religious wedding night.
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Didn’t he oppose mandatory vaccinations? Sounds like he is only Pro-Choice when it’s his body, not a woman’s.
That sounds like a conflation of 2 issues.
In my view, mandating the emergency use only approval of the experimental “vaccine” was an act of evil and a total violation of everything that is intrinsic to being a free human.
There will always be people who want or need to have an abortion – it’s not something I would ever contemplate, (except in a life/death scenario perhaps) but I feel it is essential for it to be a legal option rather than risk reverting to the 1960’s era of back street abortion services being provided in (to say the least) unhygienic conditions.
>Natsios stated that he is not bothered by a woman wearing pants and differed from the statements of the Metropolitan who said that he detests women who dress like men.
He sounds like TERF who is bothered some women wear pants, and may ask for abortion rights!
I am a pragmatist. There always has been, is now and always will be women who get pregnant and who are desperate not to give birth to a child, for whatever reason. Nobody’s opinion will alter that. Those women will seek to have an abortion. Nobody’s opinion will alter that. The only control government can exercise is either to allow those women to obtain an abortion legally, preformed by a clinical professional in sterile conditions or force them to obtain an abortion illegally performed by a complete amateur in non sterile conditions with all the health risks that implies. That is reality.
My deeply held belief is that nobody with views like Dimitris Natsios should be allowed within a million miles of Syntagma. Why are my deeply held belifs any less valid than his?
Cuz you are killing a living human being.
Religion is a personal thing, everyone has the right to practice whatever faith they choose. But NOBODY has the right to force their faith and beliefs on another. A woman’s right to choose what happens to her body trumps everything else.
PS…I think its better and about time the males are given the CHASTITY BELT actually…..keep their bits locked safely away!
So as a man who firmly believe in the “family” he also believes “that no one has the right to harm the foetus” does he totally fail to realise that by refusing an abortion to a woman may result in harm to her health both mental and physical, which then has profound implications for the family?
Is he naive, ignorant or arrogant, I guess a mixture of all 3. I sincerely hope his very outdated views stay just that and progress no further.
There is another side to this story which I researched a few years ago and is to do with Greek lack of educational parental and school communication skills with their lets say…above twelve year old…children on the subject of sexual education and pregnancy prevention, it was clear at the time from statistics that abortion was being used,practiced very frequently in Greece as a form of contraception by a very young age group,parents believing or wanting to believe that their children would not have any close relations of that nature and no upset would ever occur within the family.This unfortunately was not the case and things may have continued on in the same way.We hope for improvement and to follow Hollands example of an extremely low abortion rate in teenagers due to education.We want children to be happy throughout their lives not scarred over an event that could have been avoided