Politics
Friday March 9, 2007
See today's LifeSiteNews stories
Abortion Comes to Peru Via State Hospital's Broad Policy on "Therapeutic" Abortion
By John-Henry Westen
LIMA, March 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Peru, a pro-life country which in 2002 officially declared March 25 the "day of the unborn child," seems to have succumbed to international pressure to legalize abortion. The Peruvian daily "El Comercio" reports that a directive which went into effect in February allows for "therapeutic termination of pregnancy" up to the 22nd week of pregnancy.
The directive specifies that such 'therapeutic' abortions are available in one of 17 different health conditions.
The policy was put in place at the main state maternity hospital Instituto Materno Perinatal in Lima. And while health ministry officials contacted by the newspaper say the directive is only applicable at the state hospital, a pro-abortion group has hailed it as applying to the whole country. "This protocol will guarantee a safe procedure for those women whose pregnancies should be terminated for medical reasons, thus protecting their lives and their health," said the Center for the Promotion and Defense of Sexual Rights.
Peru's former Minister of Health, Luis Solari, said therapeutic abortion was a euphemism for legalizing abortion for any reason. "Under this guise they are introducing a giant list of illnesses that have nothing to do with endangering the life of the mother. With this logic any child with Down's Syndrome will be killed before he is born," Solari warned.
The United Nations, the World Health Organization, the UK and USAID have all pushed the once strongly pro-life country to give in to abortion.
To voice concern to the Peruvian Health Minister Carlos Vallejos email (he does understand English):
cvallejos@minsa.gob.pe
See related coverage:
World Health Organization Campaigning with False Science to open Peru to Abortifacients
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/sep/04090904.html
Peru Being Illegally Targeted for Abortion by USAID
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021303.html
United Nations Pushing Abortion Politics in Peru
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06022207.html
Peru Gov't Strongly Objects To Pro-Abortion UK Aid Conditions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/dec/02120302.html
(with files from the Catholic News Agency)
Back to TopSHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook
Latest Headlines
- University of Calgary Once Again Attempting to Censor Campus Pro-Life Club
- English Catholic Bishops have Failed to Admit “Sickness” of Dissent in the Church: Lancaster Bishop
- The Coming "War" Between the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church
- Speech Police Hired to Roam Queens University Campus
- Adult Stem Cells used to Create “Living Bandage” for Knee Injuries
- Lawsuits Proliferate Demanding Proof of Obama's Natural-Born Citizenship before Electoral Vote Count
- Catholics and Evangelicals Urge Intense Prayer Against Abortion for Coming Obama Rule
- Mainstream Media Ignoring Violence, Vandalism and Intimidation of Homosexualist Protestors
- LifeSiteNews NewsBytes For November 19, 2008
- Donate to LifeSiteNews.com Simply by Surfing the Internet!
Most Read this Week
- Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist
- Italian Nuns Refuse to Kill Eluana
- Alleged Chemical Attack on Pro-lifers at Abortion Clinic Sickens Two
- Charleston Priest Tells Obama-Supporting Catholics to Confess before Receiving Communion Again
- Parliamentary Group Pushing “Nazi Eugenics Principles”: Australian Senator
- Christian Prayer Group Sexually and Physically Assaulted by Homosexual Mob
- UK Catholic Bishop: “I have been thrilled by Barack Obama’s victory and I thank God for it.”
- What Homeschoolers Can Expect Under an Obama Administration
- Mormons, Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats and More Vandalism for Prop. 8 Support
- Lawsuits Proliferate Demanding Proof of Obama's Natural-Born Citizenship before Electoral Vote Count
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.