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Tuesday July 4, 2006
Judicial Activism Key to Introducing Abortion to Catholic Latin America: Abortion Lobby Group
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By Hilary White
WASHINGTON, July 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The abortion lobby, the Center for Reproductive Rights, held a briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday to outline their plans for expanding abortion in Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
The Catholic News Agency reports that the Center will continue to use the courts in Latin America to bypass legislative opposition to abortion. The Center’s speakers boasted that judicial activism has been particularly successful in “widening the availability of abortion” in the heavily Catholic region.
The speakers said that they understood that the area was heavily opposed to abortion and that it would require much “education” to change the attitudes there. They praised the success of the notorious “Paulina” case in which a young girl was held up as a test case in Mexico to create a legal exception through the courts for abortion due to rape. They said the rape exception was a particularly effective wedge issue in Catholic countries.
In recent years, Latin America has been singled out by abortion activists as one of the last remaining regions in the world where public opinion has not swung in favour of “a woman’s right to choose.”
In May, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia, Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro, begged for prayers from around the world to stop the abortion invasion of Latin America.
Archbishop Castro said that the so-called “rape exception” was a ruse to plant abortion in countries where no one wants it. “A door is being opened toward the elimination of the innocent lives of so many children who will not be allowed to live, we have always said this is wrong. We continue to say that this is an act against the life of the unborn and it is immoral.”
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Colombian Court Legalizes Abortion – Beachhead for Activists in Latin America
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06051503.html
US Abortion Activists Forcing Abortion on Mexico through Courts
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06030808
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