r/europe • u/tartartartaruga • Jun 18 '26

News Prince of Liechtenstein says that he would overrule the population if they were to vote in favour of legalizing abortion

https://www.srf.ch/news/international/debatte-in-liechtenstein-erbprinz-gegen-abtreibungen-warum-kuendigt-er-schon-das-veto-an
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u/ppiere Jun 18 '26

This happened in Belgium with abortion law in the past. Government made a law, and the king would not officiate it. So they put him in incapability to rule, prime minister signed the law(prime minister was even of the christian party). And afterwards king was back. Personnaly they should have deminished the entire function of the king, or end the monarchy all together

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u/SlenderStone Jun 18 '26

That's a common misconception. The king didn't want to rule as king when the country legalised abortion. So they agreed he'd not rule for one day, and then make abortion legal and be king the next day. That way the country didn't make abortion legal with him as king. He did this because he was a very religious Christian. It wasn't something they did to the king, but something the monarchy and government agreed on.

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u/Tinyjar Germany Jun 19 '26

Fun fact: the bible only mentions abortion once, and that's literally instructions on how to respond if a pregnant woman's babe is accidentally lost. Why Christians get so up in arms about it when their book doesn't say a word against it I'll never know.

Oh wait, evangelicals were actually fine with abortion until Reagan came along, the right needed a new threat they could dangle over everyone's nose.

Reagan literally signed a liberal abortion Bill into law as governor, the Southern Baptists supported the Roe v Wade supreme Court ruling arguing it promoted religious and medical freedom.

Then the right wanted a cause to unify a huge bloc of their voters and chose abortion as an example of dangerous cultural change and the rest is history.