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Per Kørner
Per Kørner (26 April 1936 – 27 September 2018) was a Norwegian priest and anti-abortion activist. Kørner was a missionary priest in South Africa from 1966 to 1978, and parish priest in Strandebarm from 1981 to 1991. He broke with the state governance of the Church of Norway in 1984 in solidarity with anti-abortion priest Børre Knudsen, and was defrocked by a court ruling in 1991. He then continued as priest in the independent Deanery of Strandebarm (also known as the "Church of Norway in Exile") along with Knudsen. He joined the political party Abortion Opponents' List as deputy leader for the 2009 parliamentary election alongside Ludvig Nessa and Ivar Kristianslund from the "exile church". He has later protested against abortion and homosexuality during Church of Norway church services, kneeling in front of the church altar in the middle of church services, including in the Bergen Cathedral, the St John's Church, Bergen, and the Tromsø Cathedral, when King Harald V Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-abortion Activist
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in response to the legalization of elective abortions. Europe In Europe, abortion law varies by country, and has been legalized through parliamentary acts in some countries, and constitutionally banned or heavily restricted in others. In Western Europe this has had the effect at once of both more closely regulating the use of abortion, and at the same time mediating and reducing the impact anti-abortion campaigns have had on the law. France The first specifically anti-abortion organization in France, Laissez-les-vivre-SOS futures mères, was created in 1971 during the debate that was to lead to the Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. Since 2005, the French anti-abortion movement has organized an annual March for Life. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
