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The article discusses the issue of church and state in Argentina under President Néstor Kirchner. Argentina's health minister, Ginés González, remarked that decriminalizing abortion might save the lives of mothers in medical danger. Antonio Baseotto, the bishop attached to the army, unleashed a broadside against González in a public letter. Kirchner promptly asked the Vatican to sack Bishop Baseotto. Rebuffed by Rome, Kirchner stripped Bishop Baseotto of the state salary he received as chaplain to the army and thus, in theory, his right to enter military installations. The Vatican retorted that it would interpret anything which prevented Baseotto from fulfilling his church duties as an attack on freedom of religion.
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