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A call for wider access to abortion in Austria seen has tempers flare, rekindling a debate over whether it is a right and whether public should offer the procedure hospitals.
"Pregnancy terminations in each region to be offered," said Health Minister Alois Stöger in an interview with the weekly news, drawing a heated response from several political parties and physician.
Redundancies in Austria offer pregnancy according to Ministry 29 public hospitals and clinics, but these are all concentrated in the East of the country, with no one in the Western provinces of Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
And while a handful private practitioners provide the procedure in the West, the costs are inevitably higher than in public hospitals.
"A whole group of people, i.e. women, is not seriously taken if Western Austria this option (abortion) does not exist," said the Social Democrat Stöger news.
"Women have the right to decide whether she have a cancellation or not want," he added, and threatened to withhold any government money, if access has not expanded public hospitals.
"Implementation of abortion is not the role of the public hospitals, and it will stay this way" fumed Vorarlberg Vice-Governor Markus Wallner reaction.
"Abortion is obliged to not state" Karlheinz head of the conservative people's Party, the Social Democrats coalition partner in the Government, during the Austrian Medical Association "alarming" link added to access abortion with the allocation of State resources as.
For many critics in the most Catholic country is also the basic legality pregnancy abort in case of doubt.
A 1975 law indicates only that abortion is "not subject to sanctions", if carried out within the first three months of pregnancy or in the case of a serious health concerns for the mother or child.
The text is known as the "grace period solution" (abortion) rather than the "abortion law."
The far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was the law "only says that the killing of unborn life is free from sanctions, but it remains illegal."
"There is no such thing as a right to abortion," FPOe Deputy, the Dagmar Belakowitsch Jenewein in response to the Stoeger would added proposal while the President of the Medical Association warned it "ethically questionable to force doctors to perform abortions against their will."
The people's Party and little surprisingly is the Catholic Church called for further measures to promote family life, and promote women to keep their child.
Proposals have been the Stoeger but on the other side of the political spectrum from his fellow Social Democrats, green opposition and the media, who warned welcomes the risks of looking for an abortion from illegal practitioners.
The Social Democrat said "Women have a right to self-determination over their body and should not be hampered by inadequate medical facilities," Minister for women's Affairs, Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek.
Although no official statistics exist, it is estimated that some 30,000 abortions each year occur in Austria.
An abortion can cost between 300 and 800 euros ($ 425-1,130) and in contrast to some other European countries everywhere, not covered by health insurance.
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