The Let Me Live ad, with an image of a fetus cupped in a hand, from December 2019.
Makri was part of a Greek feminist movement that successfully campaigned for full abortion rights in the ’80s. “It seems we have not finished.”īack in the 1950s and ’60s, Makri says, it wasn’t unusual for women to rely on abortions as a method of contraception, even though they were illegal. Alexandra Makri, an Athens-based gynecologist. “It looked like we had finished this issue,” says Dr.
Since its launch in 2017, Let Me Live has hosted seminars, conferences and marches across Greece. Lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have only temporarily put plans for more events on hold. Wade and frequently use language like “unborn child” and the idea that “life begins at conception” - staples of anti-abortion rhetoric in America. Online, Let Me Live shares news stories from American Christian anti-abortion groups like the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. But what’s new is the adoption of such aggressive, in-your-face tactics borrowed from the American anti-abortion movement. The Greek Orthodox Church has opposed abortion since the 1980s. Women have to understand how precarious their rights are. In early February, similar posters were tacked all over the northern city of Thessaloniki.
29, Let Me Live, a collection of 19 far-right Orthodox Christian associations, took out a full-page ad - an image of a fetus cupped in a hand - on the cover of one of Greece’s most popular sports newspapers. Last summer, the Greek Orthodox Church declared a “day of the unborn child.” On Dec. But a growing rightward shift in Greece, where the conservative New Democracy came to power last year, is turning abortion into a hot-button political topic, with campaigns modeled on the American pro-life movement gaining growing momentum in the European nation. Sponsored by the group Let Me Live, the anti-abortion posters at 17 metro stations sparked outrage on social media: Some train riders critiqued the ads as “medieval,” while a former minister decried them as “unacceptable.”īy the end of the day, the minister of infrastructure and transportation ordered that the posters be withdrawn, stating they were “directed against an absolutely guaranteed and undeniable right of women.” Access to abortion has been a fact of life in Greece since 1986, when it became a legal right. Jeoung beat Gionis 7-11, 11-7, 8-11, 10-12, 12-10, 11-6, 14-12.On a Monday morning in January, metro commuters across Athens were greeted with posters of an illuminated fetus, affixed in the type of frames that usually announce concerts and plays.
“The collaboration between ERT and Dimosthenis Karmiris was terminated today, immediately after the morning show.”
“Racist comments have no place on public television,” ERT said in the statement. Several hours later, ERT posted a statement on its website. ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A sports commentator in Greece who made an on-air remark about a South Korean athlete at the Tokyo Olympics that the station called racist has been fired, the country’s state-run broadcaster said Tuesday.ĮRT television said it had ended its collaboration with veteran journalist Dimosthenis Karmiris as a guest commentator following comments he made after Jeoung Young-sik beat Panagiotis Gionis of Greece in men’s table tennis.Īsked about the skill of South Korean table tennis players, Karmiris said “their eyes are narrow so I can’t understand how they can see the ball moving back and forth.”