Moscow, July 1, 2011
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"Taking life in abortion centers and through repressions, for example, in the GULAG system, are certainly extreme examples, but in both cases life is not respected, life is destroyed," he said speaking at the Moscow demographic summit organized by the World Congress of Families, reports Interfax - Religion.
Keyes stressed that "God has given us family to continue the species."
"We often underestimate value of a family, allow its destruction, trying to substitute it with surrogates. We don't understand that the family is a source of essential life energy that oil, coal and even sunlight lack. The source of this energy is in human heart, spirit and God's will," he said.
In her turn, member of the European Parliament Anna Zaborska said that the European Union also faces the decrease of an economically active population and "the situation will deteriorate in several years."
"Today young people more seldom marry and more seldom live family life in marriage. Actions of governments (of the European countries - IF) denegrate the importance of marriage, leading to the decrease of population and personal earnings, which resulted in a fiscal crisis," she said.
Another participant in the forum and head of the guardian council of demographic program, Sanctity of Maternity, Natalia Yakunina, representing the project said: "We are trying to introduce a post of psychologists on preabortive counciling in each Russian women's medicine center. About 15-18 percent of women [visiting the centers -OC] save their children as a result of this work. None of the women who save their pregnancies then refuse their babies," she said.
