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Kompromis czy kłamstwo? Głos w sporze o zakres prawnej ochrony życia w Polsce

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ŚLĘCZKA SDS P.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2016

vol. 29

issue 4 (116)

In the fall of 2016, it became apparent that the civil initiative to widen the extent of legal protection of the lives of the unborn will not find a political support from the members of the Polish Parliament. The public debate on the ‘permissible’ scope of abortion in Poland involved debates among publicists, journalists, and politicians, but also certain Catholic philosophers, in particular ethicists, among them Fr. Alfred Wierzbicki. However, Fr. Wierzbicki’s thesis that a ‘wise’ law will leave the decision as to whether the life of an unborn child should continue to the child’s mother, is rendered impossible within personalist ethics. The paper embraces a polemic with Fr. Wierzbicki’s view and advances a criticism of the ‘argument to moderation,’ put forward by the proponents of preserving unchanged the 1993 legal regulation which made it possible to perform abortion under certain circumstances. The nexus of the criticism thus formulated is the twofold (logical and ethical) analysis of the law-making procedures accepted by the Polish Parliament. As it turns out, it is precisely these procedures that make it impossible for its pro-life members to cast their votes on the issue of ‘permissibility’ of abortion in a way that would enable them to manifest their axiological standpoint in a coherent way, and thus to follow their consciences. Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Jesienią 2016 roku okazało się, że obywatelska inicjatywa rozszerzenia prawnej ochrony życia dzieci poczętych nie znajdzie politycznego poparcia w polskim parlamencie. W publiczną debatę na temat zakresu legalności aborcji w Polsce włączyli się publicyści, dziennikarze, politycy, jak również niektórzy filozofowie i etycy katoliccy, między innymi ks. Alfred Wierzbicki. Jego teza o „mądrym prawie”, które w pewnych sytuacjach pozostawia kobiecie ostateczną decyzję w sprawie życia dziecka poczętego, na gruncie etyki personalistycznej jest niemożliwa do uzasadnienia. Tekst ma charakter polemiczny wobec poglądu wyrażonego przez księdza Wierzbickiego i zawiera krytykę „argumentu z kompromisu”, przywoływanego przez zwolenników zachowania w polskim prawie cywilnym legalności aborcji w wymiarze przyjętym w ustawie z roku 1993. Ważnym ogniwem przedstawionej krytyki jest analiza logiczno-etyczna przyjmowanych obecnie procedur uchwalania prawa w polskim parlamencie. To one bowiem sprawiają, że dla posła pro- life niemożliwe jest dzisiaj konsekwentne i zgodne z sumieniem prezentowanie swojego stanowiska aksjologicznego.

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ŚLĘCZKA, SDS P.

Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL

2011

vol. 24

issue 3 (95)

In the ethics worked out by the late Tadeusz Styczeń, SDS, a special position is given to the right to life belonging to every unborn baby. In his philosophical analyses Styczeń demonstrates the way to discover the personal dignity of a baby before his or her birth. The beginning of a human being, which results from the conception of the new life in question, for reasons of logic and rationality must be tantamount to the origin of the personal dignity of this human individual. No other approach to this issue is rationally acceptable since it is impossible to point, in the process of the development of an already existing life, to a single moment when the existence of a «non−human» being transforms into the existence of a human being. Since every unborn baby is a person who cannot defend his or her right to life, he or she needs special protection in state law. However, in many states, including democratic ones, the situation is reverse: the law does not protect the lives of the unborn. Styczeń describes this situation as a veiled totalitarianism in which the principle of equality of all before the law is violated. In the theological aspect, Styczeń associated the dignity of human life with the fact that life is always a gift from the Creator, its ultimate source, who in way shares his own being with every human. In the article, three fields have been distinguished in which Styczeń was striving for protection of and respect for the lives of the unborn, namely, his academic career, his social involvement and his concern about the proper interpretation of the teaching of the Catholic Church about the dignity of life. Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

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