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The Argentine government has effectively sacked a bishop (who is bishop to Argentina's armed forces) for saying the health minister should be "thrown into the sea" for supporting abortion.

Health Minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia recently said he was in favour of legalising abortion.

Quoting a passage from the New Testament, he said Mr Gonzalez Garcia deserved to have a millstone hung around his neck and should be "thrown into the sea".

During the military regime that ruled the country from 1976-1983, political opponents were thrown into the sea during the so-called "death flights".

The bishop says his comments were taken out of context.

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